GCN Circular 9770
Subject
GRB 090812: Liverpool Telescope afterglow confirmation
Date
2009-08-12T07:19:41Z (15 years ago)
From
Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy <guidorzi@fe.infn.it>
R.J. Smith (Liverpool JMU), A. Gomboc (U. Ljubljana), C. Guidorzi (U.
Ferrara),
C.G. Mundell, I.A. Steele, A. Melandri, S. Kobayashi, C.J. Mottram, D.F.
Bersier,
Z. Cano (Liverpool JMU) report on behalf of a large collaboration:
On 2009 August 12 at 06:03:54 UT the 2-m Liverpool Telescope automatically
began observing the Swift GRB 090812 (Stamatikos et al., GCN Circ. 9768)
using the r' and i' filters.
We clearly detected the fading optical afterglow reported by Swift-UVOT
and P60 (Cenko et al. GCN Circ. 9769) with the following values:
Mid Time Delay from BAT Total Exp Filter Mag
(UT) trigger (s) (s)
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06:03:59 111 10 r' 15.51 +- 0.04
06:06:26 258 10 r' 16.60 +- 0.10
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Magnitudes have been calibrated from nearby SDSS stars.