GCN Circular 8731
Subject
GRB 081226: GROND afterglow candidate
Event
Date
2008-12-26T03:08:29Z (17 years ago)
From
Paulo M. J. Afonso at MPE <pafonso@mpe.mpg.de>
GRB 081226: GROND afterglow candidate
P. Afonso, T. Kruehler (both MPE Garching), S. Klose (TLS Tautenburg), and
J. Greiner (MPE Garching) report on behalf of the GROND team:
GROND (Greiner et al. 2008, PASP 120, 405), mounted at the 2.2m ESO/MPI
telescope at La Silla Observatory (Chile),started observations of the field
of GRB 081226 (Godet et al. 2008, GCN #8729) in g'r'i'z'JHK at 01:14 UTC, 11
min after the burst. We detect a faint optical source in the XRT error
circle (Godet et al. 2008, GCN #8729) at:
RA(J2000): 08:01:59.92
DEC(J2000): -69:01:47.4
with uncertainties of 0.5".
At a midtime of 01:57 UTC, we measure a rough preliminary r' band magnitude
of 24.3 calibrated with the GROND zeropoint.
No statement about variability can be made at this point. Observations are
ongoing.