GCN Circular 4691
Subject
GRB060206: P60 Optical Observations
Event
Date
2006-02-06T09:31:48Z (20 years ago)
From
S. Bradley Cenko at Caltech <cenko@srl.caltech.edu>
E. O. Ofek, S. B. Cenko, A. M. Soderberg (Caltech), and D. B. Fox (Penn
State) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
We have imaged the error circle of GRB060206A (Morris et al. GCN 4682),
with the automated Palomar 60-inch telescope, starting 1.4 hours after the
GRB trigger. Observations were taken under poor external conditions
(cirrus clouds and below-average seeing).
We find the afterglow reported by Fynbo et al. (GCN 4683) at J2000.0
coordinates:
RA: 13:31:43.47
Dec: +35:03:03.3
The R-band magnitude of the afterglow, ~3.44 hours after the GRB trigger
was about 17.2, assuming R=16.17 for the nearby USNO-B1 star 1250-0209088
(13:31:43.65 +35:02:31.4).
A finding chart can be found at:
http://astro.caltech.edu/~eran/GRB/060206/GRB060206_FC.jpg