GCN Circular 4212
Subject
GRB 051109a: IR Detections
Event
Date
2005-11-09T02:09:23Z (20 years ago)
From
Josh Bloom at UC Berkeley <jbloom@astron.berkeley.edu>
J. S. Bloom, on behalf of a larger collaboration, reports:
"The Peters Automated Infrared Imaging Telescope (PAIRITEL)
autonomously began observing the field of GRB 051109a (Swift trigger
163136) at 2005-11-09 01:13:55.59 UTC (1min35 sec after the trigger).
In the first several individual 7.8 second exposures we detected the
candidate afterglow proposed by Rykoff et al. (GCN #4211) in
simultaneous J, H, and Ks imaging. Further observations are in
progress as well as analysis."
Josh