[vsnet-grb-info 13968] GRB 131002A: Faulkes Telescope North optical afterglow

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  15282
SUBJECT: GRB 131002A: Faulkes Telescope North optical afterglow
DATE:    13/10/02 07:17:47 GMT
FROM:    Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy  <guidorzi at fe.infn.it>

C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara) on behalf of a large collaboration reports:

The 2-m Faulkes Telescope North automatically began observing GRB
131002A on October 02 2013 at 06:57:26 UT (~3.1 min after the burst 
trigger).

Within the XRT error circle  we find a fading uncatalogued object at
coordinates

RA(2000.0)=   16:52:52.86
Dec(2000.0)=  +82:03:16.4  (error 0.5")

with R=15.2 +- 0.2 mag, calibrated against nearby USNOB-1 stars.