GCN Circular 7440
Subject
GRB 080319A: REM observations
Date
2008-03-19T11:59:06Z (17 years ago)
From
Stefano Covino at Brera Astronomical Observatory <stefano.covino@gmail.com>
S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, D. Fugazza, L.A. Antonelli, L. Calzoletti,
S. Campana, G. Chincarini, M.L. Conciatore, S. Cutini, V. D'Elia, F.
D'Alessio, F. Fiore, P. Goldoni, D. Guetta, C. Guidorzi, G.L.
Israel, E. Maiorano, N. Masetti, A. Melandri, E. Meurs, L. Nicastro,
E. Palazzi, E. Pian, S. Piranomonte, L. Stella, G. Stratta, G.
Tagliaferri, G. Tosti, V.Testa, S.D. Vergani, F. Vitali report on
behalf of the REM team:
The robotic 60-cm REM telescope located at La Silla (Chile) observed
automatically the field of the GRB 080319A (GCN 7426, Pagani et al.)
about 40 seconds after the burst.
We do no detect any source at the position of the optical afterglow
identified by Cenko et al. (GCN 7429) and Malesani et al. (GCN 7436)
with a 3sigma upper limit of H~15.0 in the first coadded frame
at about 100sec after the burst.
[GCN OPS NOTE(19mar08): Per author's request, the Cenko reference
was added.]