GCN Circular 7960
Subject
GRB 080710: REM afterglow confirmation & brightening
Date
2008-07-10T10:05:04Z (16 years ago)
From
Paolo D'Avanzo at INAF-OAB <paolo.davanzo@brera.inaf.it>
P. D'Avanzo, D. Fugazza, L.A. Antonelli, L. Calzoletti, S. Campana,
G. Chincarini, S. Covino, 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 080710 (Sbarufattion et al. GCN 7957,
7958) on July 10 starting at 07:14:36 UT.
We can detect in optical and NIR bands the object reported by Li et al.
(GCN 7959). The object is variable and we measure a brightening from H ~
15.0 to H ~14.3 between two epochs of observations (arount 07:21 and
08:47 UT, respectively). Further analysis is ongoing.