GRB 151027B
GCN Circular 18548
Subject
GRB 151027B: ATCA radio detection
Date
2015-11-01T07:01:04Z (10 years ago)
From
Jochen Greiner at MPI <jcg@mpe.mpg.de>
J. Greiner (MPE), M. Wieringa (CSIRO), P. Wiseman (MPE) report for a
larger consortium:
We observed the field of GRB 151027B (Swift trigger 661869; Ukwatta et
al., GCN 18499) simultaneously at 5.5 and 9 GHz with the Australia
Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), beginning at October 30.54 UT for 3.3 hrs.
At a mean frequency of 9 GHz (with 2 GHz bandwidth) we detect a source
at ~67+/-10 microJy at the position of the optical afterglow (Malesani
et al., GCN 18501; Wiseman et al., GCN 18507). At the redshift of z=4.063
(Xu et al., GCN 18506) this is among the most luminous GRB radio afterglows.
We are grateful to P. Edwards for scheduling this observation.
GCN Circular 18543
Subject
GRB 151027B: RATIR Late-Time Upper Limits
Date
2015-10-31T15:12:21Z (10 years ago)
From
Nat Butler at UC berkeley <natxbutler@gmail.com>
Nat Butler (ASU), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC), William H. Lee (UNAM), Michael G. Richer (UNAM), Ori Fox (UCB), J. Xavier Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB), Antonino Cucchiara (GSFC/STScI), Eleonora Troja (GSFC), Owen Littlejohns (ASU), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), Jos�� A. de Diego (UNAM), Leonid Georgiev (UNAM), Jes��s Gonz��lez (UNAM), Carlos Rom��n-Z����iga (UNAM), Neil Gehrels (GSFC), Harvey Moseley (GSFC), John Capone (UMD), V. Zach Golkhou (ASU), and Vicki Toy (UMD) report:
We observed the field of GRB 151027B (Ukwatta, et al., GCN 18499) with the Reionization and Transients Infrared Camera (RATIR; www.ratir.org) on the 1.5m Harold Johnson Telescope at the Observatorio Astron��mico Nacional on Sierra San Pedro M��rtir from 2015/10 31.23 to 2015/10 31.52 UTC (78.85 to 85.85 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining a total of 5.20 hours exposure in the r, i, and z bands.
We no longer detect the optical afterglow (Malesani et al., GCN 18501). In comparison with the USNO-B1 and 2MASS catalogs, we obtain the following upper limits (3-sigma):
r > 23.45
i > 23.39
z > 18.57
These magnitudes are in the AB system and are not corrected for Galactic extinction in the direction of the GRB.
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astron��mico Nacional in San Pedro M��rtir.
GCN Circular 18529
Subject
GRB 151027B: Swift UVOT detection
Date
2015-10-29T15:34:43Z (10 years ago)
From
Alice Breeveld at MSSL-UCL <a.breeveld@ucl.ac.uk>
A. A. Breeveld (UCL-MSSL) and T. N. Ukwatta (LANL) report on behalf of
the Swift/UVOT team:
In Swift/UVOT followup observations of GRB 151027B (Ukwatta et al., GCN
Circ. 18499) a source is found in the summed up V filter exposures at a
position consistent with the XRT (Osborne et al., GCN Circ. 18504) and
the optical/NIR counterparts reported by Malesani et al. GCN Circ.
18501, Xu et al. GCN Circ. 18505, Wiseman and Greiner GCN Circ. 18507,
Buckley et al. GCN Circ. 18511, Watson et al. GCN Circ. 18512, and
Dichiara et al. GCN Circ. 18520