GCN Circular 7722
Subject
GRB 080514B, GROND observations
Date
2008-05-15T07:59:26Z (16 years ago)
From
Sylvio Klose at TLS Tautenburg <klose@tls-tautenburg.de>
A. Rossi (Tautenburg), A. Kupcu-Yoldas, J. Greiner (MPE Garching),
S. Klose, R. Filgas (Tautenburg), A. Yoldas, T. Kruehler (MPE), and
G. Szokoly (Eoetvoes Univ. Budapest and MPE)
report on behalf of the GROND team:
We observed the field of GRB 080514B (Rapisarda et al., GCN 7715; Giuliani
et al., GCN 7716) simultaneously in g'r'i'z'JHK using the multi-channel
imager GROND (Greiner et al. 2008, PASP 120, 405) mounted at the 2.2m
MPI/ESO telescope on La Silla (Chile). Observations started at 7:03 UT,
about 21 h after the burst.
The afterglow candidate reported by de Ugarte Postigo et al. (GCN 7719) is
detected in g'r'i'z'. Preliminary photometry yields g' = 19.95 +/- 0.2,
calibrated against NOMAD field stars. Observations are ongoing.
We thank Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (ESO) for a rapid communication of the
finding chart.