GCN Circular 9870
Subject
GRB 090902B: Optical afterglow candidate
Date
2009-09-03T05:30:08Z (15 years ago)
From
Daniel Perley at U.C. Berkeley <dperley@astro.berkeley.edu>
D. A. Perley, I. K. W. Kleiser, and J. M. Rex (UC Berkeley) report:
We imaged the location of the Swift-XRT candidate afterglow (GCN 9868,
Kennea et al.) of extremely bright Fermi GRB 090902B (GCN 9866, Bissaldi
et al.) with the Nickel 1-meter telescope at Lick Observatory. We
marginally detect a faint source in individual 600-second exposures at
the western edge of the XRT error circle with a magnitude comparable to
the Digitized Sky Survey limit. This is likely the same source observed
by the UVOT (GCN 9868, Swenson et al.).
We cannot confirm fading behavior at this time, and further observations
are encouraged. A finding chart showing the XRT error circle and the
putative afterglow is available at the following URL:
http://lyra.berkeley.edu/~dperley/090902b/090902b_lick.jpg
