GCN Circular 4227
Subject
GRB 051109a: BOOTES R & I-band detection of the early afterglow
Date
2005-11-09T12:52:27Z (19 years ago)
Edited On
2024-11-18T09:45:35Z (3 months ago)
From
Alberto Castro-Tirado at Inst.de Astro. de Andalucia <ajct@iaa.es>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Leo P. Singer at NASA/GSFC <leo.p.singer@nasa.gov>
M. Jelínek, A. de Ugarte Postigo, A. J. Castro-Tirado,
S. Vitek, J. Gorosabel, S. B. Pandey and S. S. Guziy
(IAA-CSIC Granada), P. Kubanek (ISDC Versoix, and
ASU AV CR Ondrejov) and R. Hudec (ASU AV CR)
report:
"BOOTES-1B in El Arenosillo (southern Spain), responded
to the GRB 051109a trigger (Tagliaferri et al. GCNC 4213).
A sequence of exposures started at 01:13:15.3 UT (54.8s
after the GRB, 27s after the GCN notice), simultaneously
in the R and I-bands. We detect the optical afterglow first
reported by Rykoff et al. (GCNC 4211) in both passbands.
The approximate magnitude on the first 10s R-band image
is 16.2 calibrated against USNO-A2.0. Further analysis is in
progress."
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