[vsnet-grb-info 6341] GRB 080710: KAIT OA candidate
GCN Circulars
gcncirc at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Thu Jul 10 18:46:23 JST 2008
TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 7959
SUBJECT: GRB 080710: KAIT OA candidate
DATE: 08/07/10 09:46:14 GMT
FROM: Weidong Li at UC Berkeley KAIT/LOSS <weidong at astron.berkeley.edu>
W. Li, R. Chornock, D. A. Perley, and A. V. Filippenko,
University of California at Berkeley, on behalf of the KAIT
GRB team, report:
KAIT responded to GRB 080710 (Swift trigger 316534; Sbarufatti et al.,
GCN 7957; Sbarufatti et al., GCN 7958) and started to take images at
09:10:20 UT, 1.953 hours after the BAT trigger. There is an optical
afterglow at position
RA = 00:33:05.64
DEC = +19:30:05.7
(equinox J2000)
The measured magnitude is R = 16.8 in a 20s unfiltered image,
calibrated to USNO B1. Observations are ongoing.
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