GCN Circular 1267
Subject
GRB 020305: Candidate optical afterglow
Date
2002-03-12T10:03:43Z (22 years ago)
From
Paul Price at RSAA, ANU at CIT <pap@srl.caltech.edu>
P.A. Price, D.W. Fox (Caltech) report on behalf of the
REACT GRB Collaboration:
We have observed the error box of GRB 020305 (GCN ##1262,1263)
with the Palomar 48-inch + unfiltered CCD at 2002 Mar 9.34.
Our 7 x 120 sec exposures cover the entire IPN+HETE error box.
PSF-matched image subtraction of our combined image from Mar 6.33
(GCN #1261) reveals the presence of a point-like source that
was present on Mar 6 and not detected on Mar 9 to a limiting
magnitude of R ~ 21.5 mag. The source is not present on the DSS.
Coordinates of the source are:
RA: 12:42:27.94 DEC: -14:18:11.8 J2000
with an estimated uncertainty of approximately 1 arcsec.
Further observations are underway to ascertain the veracity of
this afterglow candidate.
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