GCN Circular 5257
Subject
GRB060614: Watcher observation
Event
Date
2006-06-14T22:32:48Z (19 years ago)
Edited On
2024-11-18T09:45:08Z (a year ago)
From
Martin Jelinek at Inst.Astrophys.Andalucia,Granada <mates@iaa.es>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Leo P. Singer at NASA/GSFC <leo.p.singer@nasa.gov>
John French, Garry Melady, Lorraine Hanlon (UCD Dublin)
Martin Jelínek (IAA CSIC Granada)
and Petr Kubánek (ISDC Versoix, ASU AV CR Ondrejov)
on behalf of the Watcher Collaboration
"The Watcher 0.4m telescope, located in Boyden Observatory,
South Africa, observed the SWIFT error box for GRB 060614
(Parsons et al. GCN 5252, Mangano et al GCN 5254, Holland et
al GCN 5255, Barthelmy et al GCN 5256).
We detected the object quoted by Parsons et al. (GCN 5252) and
estimated its brightness as R=19.0+-0.3 on the 20min image
obtained at 20:50UT (ie. 7.1h after the GRB). Further we
observe fading with a power law decay index of ~-1.0.
We encourage spectroscopic observations of this object.
This message is quotable".