[vsnet-grb-info 10009] GRB 101219A: Gemini-South observations

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  11464
SUBJECT: GRB 101219A: Gemini-South observations
DATE:    10/12/19 04:13:33 GMT
FROM:    Daniel Perley at U.C. Berkeley  <dperley at astro.berkeley.edu>

D. A. Perley (UC Berkeley), E. Berger (Harvard), S.B. Cenko (UC 
Berkeley), R. Chornock (Harvard), A. J. Levan (Warwick), N. Tanvir 
(Leicester) report:

We observed the position of GRB 101219A (Gelbord et al., GCN 11461) with 
GMOS-S on the Gemini South telescope in the i-band starting at 2010 Dec 
19 13:14:04 UT (43 min after the burst).  In a stack of the first five 
180-sec exposures we detect a faint object within the XRT error circle 
(GCN #11461) at coordinates (J2000):

RA = 04:58:20.478
DEC = -02:32:22.17

The object is also weakly detected in a single r-band frame, and appears 
to be mildly extended in the i-band images.  Further observations and 
analysis are underway.