[vsnet-grb-info 2543] GRB 051221A: RAPTOR Fading Counterpart
Constraint
GCN Circulars
gcncirc at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu Dec 22 11:56:35 JST 2005
TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER: 4380
SUBJECT: GRB 051221A: RAPTOR Fading Counterpart Constraint
DATE: 05/12/22 02:54:22 GMT
FROM: James Wren at LANL <jwren at nis.lanl.gov>
J. Wren, W.T. Vestrand, R. White, P. Wozniak, and S. Evans report
on behalf of the RAPTOR team at Los Alamos National Laboratory:
Starting at 02:57:05 UT (1.1 hours after the burst), the RAPTOR-S
telescope began a manually initiated response to the short burst
identified by Swift (Parsons et al. 4363). Within the XRT error circle
(Burrows et al. 4366) at a position consistent with the location of the
candidate J-band infrared (Bloom, GCN 4368) and R-band optical (Berger,
GCN 4369) counterparts, a stack of 20 30-second unfiltered RAPTOR images
yields a marginal detection of a source. Using the USNO-B1 catalog for
calibration and ignoring any extinction along the line of sight, our
derived 5-sigma upper limit on the brightness of an optical counterpart
at that epoch (1.3 hours after the trigger) is R=20.2+/-0.2 magnitude.
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