GCN Circular 6624
Subject
GRB 070714 ("Bastille"): Optical Pre-Imaging
Date
2007-07-14T22:47:19Z (17 years ago)
From
Josh Bloom at UC Berkeley <jbloom@astron.berkeley.edu>
P. Nugent (LBL) and J. S. Bloom (UC Berkeley) report:
We have created a stacked image through the co-addition of 8
unfiltered images taken by the NEAT collaboration and 51 images in
the RG610 filter taken by the Palomar-Quest Consortium at the Palomar
Oschin Schmidt telescope (obtained from 2002-2006), of what is being
called a short-hard burst (SHB) 070714A (Barbier et al.; GCN #6622).
The stacked image is significantly deeper than the DSS (3 sigma limit
of R~22.7 mag). There is no source at the position of the proposed
counterpart (Melandri et al. GCN #6621). Since this Liverpool
Telescope source was detected in twilight, it was likely seen near
the DSS limit (or brighter) and thus, while we cannot say for sure
(since no magnitude was given in GCN #6621), the absence of a
similarly bright source in our image suggests that the Melandri et
al. source was indeed the afterglow.
Note that the source @ position RA = 03:51:21.24, DEC = +28:17:45.5
is in the 2MASS catalog and is blue (J - K = 0.5 mag).
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