GCN Circular 8528
Subject
GRB 081118: optical afterglow candidate
Date
2008-11-19T01:49:12Z (15 years ago)
From
Paolo D'Avanzo at INAF-OAB <paolo.davanzo@brera.inaf.it>
P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), V. D'Elia (INAF-OAR), S. Covino (INAF-OAB), S.
Piranomonte (INAF-OAR), R. Salvaterra (INAF-OAB), C. C. Thoene (INAF-OAB),
G. Chincarini (Un. Bicocca) report on behalf of the MISTICI collaboration:
We observed the field of GRB 081118 (Hoversten et al. GCN 8524) with the
ESO-VLT equipped with the FORS2 camera on Nov 19.0431 UT (about 10 hours
after the burst). We detect an object in our R-band images at the edge
of the refined XRT error box (Evans et al. GCN 8525). The object is
around R ~ 22.5. At present it is not possible to say if it is variable
or not. Object coordinates are (J2000):
R.A. = 05:30:22.18
Dec = -43:18:05.3
+/- 0.5". Further analysis is ongoing.
We acknowledge support from the ESO staff, in particular Antonio de
Ugarte Postigo.
[GCN OPS NOTE(19nov08): Per author's request, "C. Thone" was changed
to "C. C. Thoene".]