GCN Circular 4577
Subject
GRB 060124: Optical Afterglow Candidate from Tautenburg
Event
Date
2006-01-24T19:45:19Z (20 years ago)
From
Alexander Kann at TLS Tautenburg <kann@tls-tautenburg.de>
D. A. Kann reports on behalf of the Tautenburg GRB team:
Further inspection of the Tautenburg images (Kann, GCN 4574) reveals an optical
afterglow candidate within a preliminary XRT error circle (E. Rol, private
communication) at
R.A. 05 08 25.5
Dec: +69 44 26
with an error of 2" in comparison with the DSS infrared plate.
The candidate is detected in all single frames and does not seem to fade upon
visual inspection. On the other hand, the object does not move over one hour of
observation.
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