GCN Circular 6306
Subject
GRB 070419: P60 Confirmation of Optical Afterglow
Event
Date
2007-04-19T11:16:54Z (19 years ago)
From
S. Bradley Cenko at Caltech <cenko@srl.caltech.edu>
S. B. Cenko (Caltech) and D. B. Fox (Penn State) report on behalf of a
larger collaboration:
We have imaged the field of GRB070419 (Stamatikos et al., GCN 6302) with
the automated Palomar 60-inch telescope. The candidate identified by
Chornock et al. (GCN 5304) is visible in our images and variable; we
therefore confirm it is the optical afterglow of GRB070419. Specifically,
we measure the following R-band magnitudes:
Mean Date Time Since Burst Magnitude
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10:05:18 5.87 min 19.7
10:10:31 11.08 min 18.7
The above magnitudes were calculated assuming a magnitude of R=15.22
for the the USNO-B reference star located at 12:10:57.57, +39:55:40.2.
Further observations are planned.