GCN Circular 6979
Subject
GRB 071020: SARA observations
Date
2007-10-22T20:23:05Z (17 years ago)
From
Adria C. Updike at Clemson U <aupdike@clemson.edu>
Adria C. Updike, Dieter H. Hartmann (Clemson University) and Todd
Hillwig (Valparaiso University) report on behalf of the Clemson GRB
Follow-Up Team:
We observed the field of GRB 071020 (GCN 6949, Holland et al.) beginning
1 hour after the trigger with the SARA 0.9m telescope on Kitt Peak. In
48 minutes of stacked exposures, we detect the afterglow (GCN 6948,
Schaefer et al.) in the R band at 19.7 +/- 0.2, calibrated relative to
10 field stars in the USNO B1.0 catalog. Observations ended at 2 hours
and 11 minutes after the burst.
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