GCN Circular 8264
Subject
GRB 080916A: Rapid PROMPT Observations
Event
Date
2008-09-17T22:57:02Z (18 years ago)
From
Rebecca Holmes at U.North Carolina <rholmes@physics.unc.edu>
R. Holmes, M. Schubel, J. Haislip, D. Reichart, M. Nysewander, A.
LaCluyze, K. Ivarsen, J. A. Crain, A. Foster, T. Brennan, and A. Trotter
report:
Skynet observed the localization of GRB 080916A (Ziaeepour et al., GCN
8237) with four of the 16" PROMPT telescopes at CTIO beginning 56
seconds after the trigger in UBVRI.
We detect the afterglow (Fugazza et al., GCN 8238) in I. At 56 seconds
after the burst we measure I ~ 17.7 mag (calibrated to 5 USNO B1 stars).