GCN Circular 7073
Subject
GRB 071112B: Gemini Optical Imaging
Event
Date
2007-11-13T02:17:03Z (18 years ago)
From
Josh Bloom at UC Berkeley <jbloom@astron.berkeley.edu>
J. S. Bloom, D. Kocevski (UC Berkeley), and H.-W. Chen report:
"We obtained target of opportunity imaging of the field of SHB
071112B (Perri et al. GCN 7058; Fenimore et al. 7071) on Gemini South
after twilight. Several images of 15 sec and 180 sec were obtained
as the sky darkened. Inspection of a single 180 sec image in r band
(start = 2007-11-13 00:51:17.5 UTC) did not reveal a bright new
source when compared to DSS2 (Red) inside the reported XRT error
circle, although we do note a very weak candidate near the DSS limit
at (J2000):
RA: 17:21:15.62
DEC: -80:53:50
We make no claims to variability nor newness at this time, but
further Gemini observations are planned."
We thank Ruben Diaz and the entire Gemini staff for assistance in
taking this data.