GCN Circular 14206
Subject
Skynet Observations of GRB130215
Date
2013-02-15T02:55:19Z (12 years ago)
From
Aaron LaCluyze at U.North Carolina <lacluyze@email.unc.edu>
A. LaCluyze, J. Haislip, K. Ivarsen, D. Reichart, J. Moore, H. N. Frank, T.
Cromartie, R. Egger, A. Foster, N. Frank, M. Nysewander, A. Oza, E.
Speckhard, A.Trotter, and J. A. Crain report:
Skynet began observing the field of GRB130215A (Swift trigger 548760, GCN
14204) in BVRI beginning ~12 minutes after the burst using four of the
PROMPT telescopes located at CTIO in Chile, and the DSO-14 telescope and
Morehead telescope in North Carolina, USA. A bright, fading source is
detected at the position reported by the ROTSE group (GCN 14205.)
Calibrating to several nearby USNO B1.0/NOMAD stars, we find the following
initial magnitudes:
Filt Time Mag
B 15.4m 15.4
V 15.4m 14.5
R 13.0m 13.8
I 15.5 13.3
The object has set in Chile, but further observations from the Northern
hemisphere telescopes are ongoing.