[vsnet-grb-info 13542] GRB 130612A: Liverpool Telescope Afterglow detection

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  14875
SUBJECT: GRB 130612A: Liverpool Telescope Afterglow detection
DATE:    13/06/12 03:58:00 GMT
FROM:    Andrea Melandri at INAF-OAB  <andrea.melandri at brera.inaf.it>

A. Melandri (INAF-OAB), C.G. Mundell (LJMU) and A. Gomboc (U.  
Ljubljana) )report:

The 2-m Liverpool Telescope robotically followed up GRB130612A (Swift  
trigger 557976, Racusin et al., GCN 14874) ~16  min after the GRB  
trigger time observing with SLOAN-gri filters.

The automatic LT-TRAP procedure detected an uncatalogued fading source  
candidate at:

RA = 17:19:10.57
Dec = +16:43:11.6    (J2000)

with magnitude R~18.9 mag (vs USNOB1) ~16 min after the burst  
trigger.  The object is clearly fading in all filters.

Observations and analysis are ongoing.