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GCN Circular 4250

Subject
Faulkes Telescope R-band detection of GRB051111
Date
2005-11-11T06:47:36Z (19 years ago)
From
Carole Mundell at ARI, JMU,Liverpool <cgm@astro.livjm.ac.uk>
C.G. Mundell (Liverpool JMU), E. Rol (Leicester), C. Guidorzi, A. Gomboc,
I. A. Steele, C.J. Mottram, A. Monfardini, R.J. Smith, D. Carter, M.F.
Bode (Liverpool JMU), P. O'Brien, N. Bannister (Leicester) report:

"The 2-m Faulkes North Telescope robotically followed up GRB051111
(Swift trigger 163438) at 06:04:44 UT.  The automatic "detection mode"
procedure detected a fading candidate at:

23:12:33.17 +18:22:28.80 (J2000) -  R = 14.86 mag (vs USNOB1)

Observations and analysis are ongoing.

This message may be cited"
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