GCN Circular 4502
Subject
GRB060108: Faulkes North afterglow evidence
Date
2006-01-13T19:35:23Z (19 years ago)
From
Alessandro Monfardini at JMU/Liverpool Robotic Tele <am@astro.livjm.ac.uk>
A. Monfardini, C.G. Mundell, C. Guidorzi, I. A. Steele, A. Gomboc,
C.J. Mottram, R.J. Smith, D. Bersier, A. Melandri, S. Kobayashi,
D. Carter, M.F. Bode (Liverpool JMU), P. O'Brien, E. Rol, N. Bannister
(Leicester) report:
"The 2-m Faulkes North Telescope observed GRB060108 (Guidorzi et al,
GCN4447) starting within minutes from the alert. We report evidence for an
afterglow in i' band at the position:
RA: 09:48:01.98 DEC: +31:55:08.6 (~0.5" error)
Fully consistent with the revised XRT position suggested in GCN4500 by N.
Butler and J. S. Bloom. A finding chart is in:
http://www.astro.livjm.ac.uk/~cgm/FTNvsSDSS.pdf
(candidate within the green square)
By comparison with USNOB1 we estimated i' = 21.6 +/- 0.3 at a mean epoch
of about 35minutes from the GRB.
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