GCN Circular 8331
Subject
GRB 081007: REM NIR and optical counterpart
Date
2008-10-07T05:48:11Z (16 years ago)
From
Stefano Covino at Brera Astronomical Observatory <stefano.covino@brera.inaf.it>
S. Covino, L.A. Antonelli, L. Calzoletti, S. Campana, G.
Chincarini, M.L. Conciatore, S. Cutini, V. D'Elia, F. D'Alessio,
P. D'Avanzo, F. Fiore, D. Fugazza, 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 081007 (Baumgartner et al. GCN
8330) starting about 35s s from the GRB alert (46s from the GRB time)
with the VRIJHK bands.
We detect a source with coordinates RA,DEC =
(22:39:50.39,-40:08:49.1) consistent with the UVOT source at H~14.2.
The source is slowly fading after the first observations.
Further observations are in progress.