GCN Circular 7378
Subject
GRB080307 BOAO optical afterglow observation - detection of a possible OT
Date
2008-03-08T08:12:01Z (17 years ago)
From
Myungshin Im at Seoul Nat U <mim@astro.snu.ac.kr>
M. Im, I. Lee, Y. Urata, W.K. Zheng, K.Y. Huang,
on behalf of EAFON team.
We re-analyzed the I-band images taken with the 1.8m telescope
of the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory, Korea.
The I-band observation started at 76.1 min after the burst (Holland
et al. #7362), and continued for 2100 secs.
Our reanalysis of the stacked image show the detection of a possible
optial transient within the error circle of the XRT position (Goad et al.
#7366), and the reported Gemini-N i-band position (Tanvir et al.7369).
The brightness of the OT, calibrated against USNO-B1 star at
(09:06:31.6,+35:08,06.4), is I ~ 21.9 +- 0.3 mag with the error arising
mostly from the uncertainty associated with the subtraction of
the fringe pattern.
Further deeper imaging is encouraged.
We thank J. Seo and Yeon-Bom Jeon for their assistance with
the BOAO observation.
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