[vsnet-grb-info 14819] GRB 140419A, Optical Observations

GCN Circulars gcncirc at capella2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Sun Apr 20 23:50:41 JST 2014


TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  16133
SUBJECT: GRB 140419A, Optical Observations
DATE:    14/04/20 14:50:33 GMT
FROM:    Shashi Bhushan Pandey at ROTSE  <shaship at umich.edu>

S. B. Pandey and Brajesh Kumar (ARIES Nainital India, on behalf of larger
Indian GRB collaboration)

We observed the Swift GRB 140419A field (Marshall et al., GCN 16118) using
1.04m ST telescope at ARIES Nainital. Observations were started at 14:44:38
UT on 2014-04-19 (approximately 10.6 h after the burst). Several frames
with an exposure time of 300 s each in R_c band were obtained in good sky
conditions.

The optical counterpart of GRB 140419A (Zheng et al., GCN 16119; Guver et
al., GCN 16120; Butler et al.,GCN 16121; Kuin et al., GCN 16123; Hentunen
et al., GCN 16126; Cenko et al., GCN 16129) is clearly detected  in each
individual frames. The preliminary photometry of the first frame is 19.8 +-
0.1 mag. The photometry was performed in comparison to nearby USNO stars.

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