GCN Circular 7353
Subject
GRB 080303A: Faulkes Telescope South optical afterglow observations
Date
2008-03-03T11:19:42Z (17 years ago)
From
Andreja Gomboc at LT,ARI,Liverpool JMU <ag@astro.livjm.ac.uk>
A. Gomboc (U. Ljubljana), R.J. Smith, D.F. Bersier, S. Kobayashi, A.
Melandri, A. Monfardini, C.G. Mundell, I.A. Steele (Liverpool JMU), C.
Guidorzi (U. Bicocca & INAF-OAB), P. O'Brien, E. Rol, N. Bannister
(Leicester) report:
The 2-m Faulkes Telescope South (Siding Spring) robotically followed up
GRB 080303A (SWIFT trigger 304549) starting 3.3 min after the GRB trigger
time. We detect an optical afterglow candidate in R, B, and i' filters at
the position consistent with the UVOT (Sakamoto et al, GCN 7351),
REM (D'Avanzo et al., GCN 7350) and Mt. John (Gilmore & Kilmartin, GCN
7352) optical afterglow candidate.
The magnitude of the source was R~17.4+-0.3 and 19.7+-0.3 at 8 min and 50
min after the trigger time, respectively.