GCN Circular 459
Subject
GRB991208 - millimeter detection
Date
1999-12-15T00:18:32Z (25 years ago)
From
Frank Bertoldi at MPIFR/Bonn <bertoldi@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Michael Bremer (IRAM Grenoble), Frank Bertoldi (MPIfR Bonn),
Ute Lisenfeld (IRAM Granada), Alberto Castro-Tirado (LAEFF-INTA Madrid and
IAA-CSIC Granada), Titus Galama (Caltech, Pasadena),
and Ernst Kreysa (MPIfR) report:
The afterglow of GRB 991208 was detected at 240 GHz with the Max-Planck
Millimeter Bolometer (MAMBO) array (80 GHz bandwidth, 10.7 arcsec HPBW) at
the IRAM 30 m telescope on Pico Veleta, at the position reported by Frail
et al. (GCN 451). Three on-off integrations yield the following flux
densities:
UT December 11.77, 1999 2.6 +/- 0.8 mJy
UT December 12.38, 1999 1.9 +/- 0.6 mJy
UT December 14.35, 1999 2.2 +/- 0.7 mJy
Combining all data we obtain a flux density 2.4 +/- 0.5 mJy. The source
intensity appears to remain nearly constant. We will continue to monitor
its flux.