GCN Circular 5097
Subject
GRB 060510B: MDM Observations and candidate OT
Event
Date
2006-05-10T09:17:40Z (20 years ago)
From
Nestor Mirabal at U Michigan <mirabal@umich.edu>
N. Mirabal (U. Michigan) and J. P. Halpern (Columbia U.) report
on behalf of the MDM Observatory GRB follow-up team:
"We have observed the Swift BAT location of GRB 060510 (Krim et al., GCN
5096) with the MDM 1.3m telescope on May 10 08:50 UT, 26 minutes after
the trigger. We detect a faint source located at RA:15 56 29.615, Dec:
79 34 13.02 (+/- 2'') in a 600-s I band exposure, which is a potential
optical afterglow for this event. The object appears to be fainter
than R~22.5 in a previous 600~s exposure. This supports the idea that
GRB 060510B could be a high-redshift or highly-reddened burst. Further
observations are encouraged. Results here are very preliminary and
analysis is in progress.
This message may be cited."