GCN Circular 8441
Subject
GRB 081029: REM observations
Event
Date
2008-10-29T08:12:57Z (17 years ago)
From
Stefano Covino at Brera Astronomical Observatory <stefano.covino@gmail.com>
S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, L.A. Antonelli, D. Malesani, D. Fugazza, L.
Calzoletti, S. Campana, G. Chincarini, 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 081029 (Sakamoto et al., GCN 8435)
on Oct 29, starting about 2 min after the burst time. The afterglow
reported by Rykoff et al. (GCN 8436) and Clemens et al. (GCN 8437) is
clearly detected both in the optical and infrared bands at a
magnitude level H~14.6 about 2.5 min after the burst.
[GCN OPS NOTE(29oct08): Per author's request, the second (duplicate)
author was replaced with "P. D'Avanzo".]