GCN Circular 4081
Subject
GRB051008: optical observation
Date
2005-10-10T23:03:53Z (19 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
V.Rumyantsev (CrAO), V.Biryukov (SAI, MSU), and A.Pozanenko (IKI) on behalf
of larger GRB follow up collaboration report:
We have observed the GRB051008 error box (Marshall et al., GCN4069) with 2.6
m Shajn telescope of CrAO. The observation start on Oct. 8, 17:05:08 (UT),
i.e 38 minutes after the burst onset. We found an optical source within
XRT error circle (Perri et al., GCN4073) which is not present in DSS2 (R):
RA(J2000) =13 31 29.98
Dec =+42 05 52.06
Preliminary photometry against of USNO A2.0 is R=21.4+-0.1.
Finding chart of the optical source can be found at
http://grb.rssi.ru/GRB051008/GRB051008_ZTSh_R.gif
More detailed analysis and observations are in progress.
No optical source is detected in the place of radio source (Cameron et al.,
GCN4074).
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