GCN Circular 4011
Subject
GRB 050922C: ROTSE-III Detection of Possible Counterpart
Date
2005-09-22T20:04:53Z (19 years ago)
From
Eli Rykoff at U of Michigan/ROTSE <erykoff@umich.edu>
E.S. Rykoff (U Mich), S.A. Yost (U Mich), W. Rujopakarn (U Mich) report
on behalf of the ROTSE collaboration:
ROTSE-IIId, located at the Turkish National Observatory at Bakirlitepe,
Turkey, responded to GRB 050922C (Swift trigger 156467). The first image
was at 19:58:42.8 UT, 172.4 s after the burst (6.8 s after the GCN
notice time). The unfiltered images are calibrated relative to USNO
A2.0. We detect a new object, not visible in the DSS (second epoch),
with coordinates:
21:09:33.1 -08:45:29.8 (J2000)
start UT mag mlim(of image)
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19:58:42.8 14.7 16.1
Continuing observations are in progress.
[GCN OPS NOTE(22sep05): Per author's request, the two instances
of 'A' were changed to 'C'.]