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GCN Circular 11162

Subject
GRB 100901A: confirmation of the afterglow
Date
2010-09-01T14:58:24Z (14 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
E. Klunko, I. Korobtsev (ISTP),  A. Pozanenko (IKI) on behalf of larger GRB 
follow up collaboration  report:

We observed the  Swift GRB 100901A (Immler  et al., GCN 11159)   with 
AZT-33IK telescope of Sayan observatory (Mondy) starting Sep. 01 (UT)
13:44:30.  We confirm the afterglow candidate  (Immler  et al., GCN 11159; 
Guidorzi et al., GCN 11160) at the following preliminary position
(J2000) RA=01 49 03.29 Dec +22 45 30.0. We clearly detect the afterglow in 
single images of 60 s exposure obtained in R-filter.

Observations are continuing.
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