GCN Circular 6416
Subject
GRB 070518: OT confirmed form Xinglong TNT observation
Date
2007-05-18T16:06:03Z (17 years ago)
From
L.P. Xin at NAOC <xlp@bao.ac.cn>
L.P. Xin, M.Zhai, Y.L. Qiu, J.Y. Wei, J.Y. Hu, J.S. Deng,
Y. Urata, and W.K. Zheng on behalf of EAFON report:
We have imaged the field of GRB 070518 (C. Guidorzi et al., GCN 6415)
with the TNT 0.8m and EST 1m telescope at Xinglong Observatory started
from 14:34:53 UT, 512s after the burst. Observation were performed with
White, R, V and I filter, we estimate the OT has faded to ~ R=19.84 derieved
form USNO A-2.0, 32.73 minutes after the burst
Observation is still undergoing, deep observation are encouraged.
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