GCN Circular 8887
Subject
GRB 090205: VLT candidate afterglow
Date
2009-02-06T07:20:57Z (15 years ago)
From
Paolo D'Avanzo at INAF-OAB <paolo.davanzo@brera.inaf.it>
P. D'Avanzo, C. C. Thoene, D. Fugazza (INAF-OAB), V. D'Elia, S.
Piranomonte (INAF-OAR), R. Salvaterra, S. Covino, S. Campana (INAF-OAB),
G. Chincarini (Univ. Bicocca) report, on behalf of the MISTICI
collaboration:
We observed the field of GRB 090205 (Perri et al., GCN 8884) with the
ESO-VLT in imaging mode starting about 7.1 hours after the burst.
Observations were carried out in R and I-band with the FORS1 camera.
Inside the enhanced XRT error circle (Evans et al. GCN 8885) we find a
source at the following coordinates (J2000):
R.A. = 14:43:38.65
Dec. = -27:51:10.7
+/- 0.4"
Preliminary photometry of this candidate afterglow gives R ~ 22.0 .
We acknowledge the VLT staff for their support, in particular G. James
and J. Smoker.