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GCN Circular 1094

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HETE Trigger #1760 (GRB 010920B?): a new optical source

Date

2001-09-20T09:19:04Z (23 years ago)

From

Josh Bloom at CIT <jsb@astro.caltech.edu>

J. S. Bloom, D. Reichart, D. W. Fox, P. D. Nicholson, C. Dumas, S. R.
Kulkarni, P. A. Price, R. A. Simcoe report on behalf of the larger
Caltech-NRAO-CARA GRB collaboration:

"P. Nicholson and C. Dumar obtained two Sloan r' images of the entire
localization position reported for HETE trigger #1760 with the Hale
200-inch telescope at Palomar Observatory beginning 45.5 minutes after the
trigger. The instrument used was the Large Format Camera (LFC) and the
observations were 3 min in duration. Visual comparison with the DSS red
image reveals a new source at approximate location (+/- ~2 arcsec; as
compared with the DSS):

     RA:   22:13:31.2 (J2000)
     DEC: -14:59:44

Given that the source is < 4 deg off the ecliptic plane, the source may be
an asteroid."

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