GCN Circular 5633
Subject
GRB060927: Faulkes Telescope South observation
Date
2006-09-27T15:55:29Z (18 years ago)
From
Cristiano Guidorzi at INAF-OAB <cristiano.guidorzi@brera.inaf.it>
C. Guidorzi (Univ Bicocca & INAF-OAB), D. Bersier (Liverpool JMU),
A. Melandri, A. Gomboc (University of Ljubljana), I.A. Steele, R.J. Smith,
C.G. Mundell, A. Monfardini, D. Carter, S. Kobayashi, M. Bode
(Liverpool JMU), P. O'Brien, E. Rol, N. Bannister (Leicester)
report:
The 2m Faulkes Telescope South (Siding Spring, Australia) automatically
reacted to the Swift burst GRB 060927 (trigger 231362, Barbier et al.,
GCN Circ. 5627) and began observing 1.78 minutes after the burst trigger
time.
We find an uncatalogued source in a 220s i'-band stacked image from
5.42 min to 20.35 min after the trigger time, lying 6.4" away from the
XRT centroid and 1.7" away from the ROTSE-III candidate (Schaefer et
al., GCN Circ. 5629):
RA(J2000) = 21:58:12.0
Dec(J2000)= +05:21:49
We estimate i'=18.0 +- 0.5 and from a 390s R-band image we derive R>18.
This source lies 6.4" from the APM galaxy mentioned by Barbier et al.
(GCN Circ. 5627).
Further observations are going on.
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