GCN Circular 5706
Subject
GRB 061007: ROTSE-III Detection of Optical Counterpart
Date
2006-10-07T10:12:11Z (18 years ago)
From
Eli Rykoff at U of Michigan/ROTSE <erykoff@umich.edu>
E.S. Rykoff (U Mich), W. Rujopakarn (U Mich), report on behalf of the
ROTSE collaboration:
ROTSE-IIIa, located at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, responded
to GRB 061007 (Swift trigger 232683). The first image was at 10:08:35.2
UT, 26.4 s after the burst (9.2 s after the GCN notice time). The
unfiltered images are calibrated relative to USNO A2.0. We detect a new
object, not visible in the DSS (second epoch), with coordinates:
03:05:19.6 -50:30:02.5 (J2000), with positional
uncertainty of 1" or better
start UT mag mlim(of image)
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10:08:35.2 13.6 14.8
A jpeg image is available at
http://www.rotse.net/images/gsb232683_3a00_img.jpg Note that the object
marked 13 is the candidate in question.
Continuing observations are in progress.
