[vsnet-grb-info 22815] GRB Swift Trigger 912102: KAIT Optical Afterglow Candidate

GCN Circulars gcncirc at capella2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Sun Jun 30 15:27:51 JST 2019


TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  24914
SUBJECT: GRB Swift Trigger 912102: KAIT Optical Afterglow Candidate
DATE:    19/06/30 06:25:22 GMT
FROM:    Weikang Zheng at UC Berkeley  <weikang at berkeley.edu>

WeiKang Zheng and Alexei V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley) report on
behalf of the KAIT GRB team:

The 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), located at
Lick Observatory, responded to Swift GRB Trigger 912102
starting at Jun. 30, 06:07:18 UT. We detected an uncataloged,
faiding optical afterglow candidate at position:
RA:  14:54:48.19 (J2000)
Dec: +41:31:35.84 (J2000)
We estimate the clear band magnitude ~19.9 in out firt clear
band image.
Observation are on going, multi-band follow-ups are encouraged.



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