[vsnet-grb-info 18589] GRB161014A: optical afterglow candidate with the LCOGT-FTS

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  20037
SUBJECT: GRB161014A: optical afterglow candidate with the LCOGT-FTS
DATE:    16/10/14 13:20:55 GMT
FROM:    Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy  <guidorzi at fe.infn.it>

C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), S. Kobayashi, I.A. Steele (LJMU), C.G. Mundell 
(U. Bath), A. Gomboc (U. Nova Gorica) on behalf of a large collaboration 
report:

The 2-m LCOGT Faulkes Telescope South began observing Swift GRB161014A 
(Racusin et al., GCN 20035) in the SDSS r and i filters on October 14, 
12:44:15 UT (~13 minutes since trigger). Within the BAT error circle we 
find an uncatalogued object at the following position:

RA(J2000)=  22:10:35.47
Dec(J2000)= +07:28:07.3

with a 1 arcsec error radius and a magnitude of i~18 as calibrated 
against nearby SDSS stars.