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GCN Circular 6304

Subject
GRB 070419 optical afterglow candidate
Date
2007-04-19T10:46:06Z (17 years ago)
From
Ryan Chornock at UC Berkeley <chornock@astro.berkeley.edu>
R. Chornock, W. Li, A. V. Filippenko, and the KAIT GRB team (UC Berkeley)
report:

A faint (mag~19) optical source is present in Katzman Automatic Imaging
Telescope (KAIT) images at coordinates (J2000) 12:10:58.82  +39:55:33.9
The first detection was in a 45sec unfiltered image starting at 10:05:19 UT.
This position is consistent with the XRT position (GCN 6302) and the source does
not appear to be present in DSS images.
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