GCN Circular 6772
Subject
Candidate Orphan GRB Optical Transient in IC 4779
Date
2007-09-01T06:38:20Z (17 years ago)
From
Andrew S. Fruchter at STScI <fruchter@stsci.edu>
A. Fruchter, J. Graham and A. Levan report for a larger group:
We observed the field of the candidate orphan optical transient in IC
4779 with GMOS on the Gemini South telescope for a total integration
time of 10 minutes, starting at 1:03 UT on 1 September 2007. The
sky was photometric and the seeing in the combined image was 0."5.
We find no evidence of a point source on the field of the galaxy at
the location of the candidate orphan down to a magnitude of about
24.5 in r. We thank Alain Klotz for sending us copies of the
original discovery images, which allowed us to align the Gemini and
discovery images with an accuracy of nearly 0."1.