GCN Circular 4967
Subject
GRB 060418: REM candidate afterglow
Date
2006-04-18T03:34:35Z (18 years ago)
From
Stefano Covino at Brera Astronomical Observatory <covino@merate.mi.astro.it>
S. Covino, L.A. Antonelli, S.D. Vergani, E. Molinari, G. Chincarini, F.M. Zerbi,
V. Testa, G. Tosti, F. Vitali, P. Conconi, G. Cutispoto, G. Malaspina,
L. Nicastro, E. Palazzi, E. Meurs, P. Goldoni, report on behalf of
the REM/ROSS Team:
We imaged the field of GRB 060418 (Falcone et al. GCN 4966) with the
robotic 60-cm REM telescope located at La Silla (Chile). Observations
were performed automatically in the near infrared (J, H, K, z bands)
soon after the GRB alert.
We find a single bright source in the XRT error circle, not visible
in the 2MASS survey. Its H magnitude is about 11.25.
Further observations are still in progress.
This message is citeable.
[GCN OPS NOTE(18apr06): Per author's request, Vergani was added to the author list.]