GCN Circular 5730
Subject
GRB 061019: REM K-band candidate afterglow
Date
2006-10-19T06:19:52Z (18 years ago)
From
Stefano Covino at Brera Astronomical Observatory <stefano.covino@poste.it>
S. Covino, S. Vergani, E. Molinari, G. Chincarini, F.M. Zerbi, V. Testa, G.
Tosti, F. Vitali, P. Conconi, L.A. Antonelli, G. Cutispoto, G.
Malaspina, L. Nicastro, E. Palazzi, E. Meurs, and P. Goldoni report
on behalf of the REM/ROSS team:
We imaged the field of GRB 061019 (Guidorzi et al. GCN 5728, 5729)
with the robotic 60-cm REM telescope located at La Silla (Chile). A
first set of observations was performed automatically in the optical
and near infrared (V,R,I and z', J, H, K bands) starting on October
19 5:23 UT.
A preliminary analysis reveals an uncatalogued source of K ~ 14.5 at
RA,DEC = (06:06:30.85, +29:34:13.3).
At present we cannot say whether this source is fading or not.
Further observations are in progress.
This message may be cited.
[GCN OPS NOTE(19oct06): Per author's request, Vergani was added to the author list.]