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GCN Circular 8081

Subject
GRB 080810 : optical observation with KANATA
Date
2008-08-10T13:51:42Z (16 years ago)
From
Akira Arai at Hiroshima U <arai-akira@hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
Y. Ikejiri, M. Uemura, T. Ohsugi, K. Kawabata, A. Arai, M. Yamanaka, and K. Sakimoto (Hiroshima Univ.), 
report on behalf of the KANATA GRB team:

  We performed optical-NIR observations of the field of 
GRB 080810 (GCN Circ. 8080) with TRISPEC attached to 
the "KANATA" 1.5-m telescope.  

  We confirmed a very bright, fading object at the position of the optical 
afterglow detected with UVOT.  
Our preliminary results are below:

time(UT)       mag.              exposure_time
Aug. 2008                        (sec)
10.553258      13.7  $B!^(B 0.1  V  33sec * 1

Comparison star: 
23:46:58.51 +00:18:30.2 V=14.07 (NOMAD)
 
Further observation and analysis are ongoing.
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