[vsnet-grb-info 3877] GRB 061007 - Faulkes Telescope South Afterglow Confirmation

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  5708
SUBJECT: GRB 061007 - Faulkes Telescope South Afterglow Confirmation
DATE:    06/10/07 11:11:28 GMT
FROM:    Carole Mundell at ARI, JMU,Liverpool  <cgm at astro.livjm.ac.uk>

C.G. Mundell (Liverpool JMU), C. Guidorzi (Univ Bicocca & INAF-OAB),
A. Gomboc (University of Ljubljana), C.J. Mottram, A. Melandri,
I.A. Steele, R.J. Smith, A. Monfardini, D. Carter, S. Kobayashi,
D. Bersier, (Liverpool JMU), E. Rol, P. O'Brien, N. Bannister (Leicester)
report:

"The 2-m Faulkes Telescope South (Siding Spring, Australia)
robotically followed up GRB061007 (SWIFT trigger 232683; Schady et
al. GCN #5705) 2.28 min after the GRB trigger time.  We find a
fading source at the position reported by Rykoff et al. (GCN #5706)
and Schady et al. (GCN # 5705) and confirm it to be the afterglow of GRB
061007.

Observations and analysis are ongoing."