[vsnet-grb-info 2889] GRB060210:Faulkes Telescope North Afterglow Confirmation

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  4726
SUBJECT: GRB060210:Faulkes Telescope North Afterglow Confirmation
DATE:    06/02/10 05:44:19 GMT
FROM:    Carole Mundell at ARI, JMU,Liverpool  <cgm at astro.livjm.ac.uk>

C.G. Mundell, A. Melandri, A. Gomboc,  C. Guidorzi, I. A. Steele,
C.J. Mottram, A. Monfardini, R.J. Smith, M.F. Bode (Liverpool JMU),
E. Rol, P. O'Brien, N. Bannister (U. Leicester) report:
 
"The 2-m Faulkes Telescope North robotically followed up GRB060210
(SWIFT trigger 180977) 4.18 min after the GRB trigger time.
The automatic "detection mode" procedure detected an uncatalogued 
candidate at:
 
RA(J2000):  03:50:57.37   
Dec(2000): +27:01:34.40    
 
(positional uncertaintly 0.5")

with magnitude R = 18.1 mag (wrt USNOB1).

This source is coincident with that of  Fox et al. (GCN 4723) and Li et
al. (GCN 4725) and found to be fading, thus confirming it as the
afterglow.

Observations and analysis are ongoing.
 
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