[vsnet-grb-info 2871] Retraction of orphan GRB afterglow candidate

GCN Circulars gcncirc at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Feb 8 04:41:13 JST 2006


TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  4708
SUBJECT: Retraction of orphan GRB afterglow candidate
DATE:    06/02/07 19:38:31 GMT
FROM:    Jean-Luc Atteia at Lab d Astrophys.,OMP,Toulouse  <atteia at ast.obs-mip.fr>

F. Malacrino & JL. Atteia (LA-OMP) report on behalf of the GRB Real Time
Analysis System at CFHT (http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/~grb/).

The orphan afterglow candidate reported in GCNC 4705 is an
asteroid called 2004 RF82 which was not detected by our
automatic search program due to its slow motion.

We would like to thank Paul O'Brien for pointing us the existence
of this asteroid, and apologize for the inconvenience that this
false alarm may have caused.



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