GCN Circular 5546
Subject
GRB 060908: REM optical prompt observation
Date
2006-09-08T11:27:09Z (18 years ago)
From
Angelo Antonelli at Obs. Astro. di Roma <a.antonelli@mporzio.astro.it>
L.A. Antonelli, S. Covino, V. Testa, E. Palazzi, E. Molinari, P.
D'Avanzo, G. Chincarini, F.M. Zerbi, G. Tosti, F. Vitali, P. Conconi,
G. Cutispoto, G. Malaspina, L. Nicastro, E. Meurs, and P. Goldoni
report on behalf of the REM/ROSS team:
The robotic 60-cm REM telescope, located at La Silla (Chile), observed
automatically the field of GRB 060908 (Evans et al., GCN 5544) with
ROSS optical camera. Observations started at 09:06:21 UT, about 7 min
after the burst, in R, I and V band.
An uncatalogued fading source was observed in all filters at:
RA: 02:07:18.3
DEC +00:20:31
This position is consistent with the one reported in GCN 5544 and GCN
5545.
In the R initial image the source is at approximately R ~ 17 in 20 sec
exposure time.
Further analysis is in progress.