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GCN Circular 24056

Subject
GRB190404C: Counterpart retraction
Date
2019-04-06T03:35:57Z (6 years ago)
From
Varun Bhalerao at Indian Inst of Tech <varunb@iitb.ac.in>
Gaurav Waratkar(IITB), Harsh Kumar (IITB), Viraj Karambelkar (IITB), Tsewang Stanzin (IAO, IIA), Varun Bhalerao (IITB), G.C. Anupama (IIA) report on behalf of the GROWTH-India collaboration:

Further analysis of GROWTH-India data reveals that the reported object is actually not a counterpart, but asteroid 2010 FQ3. A fainter object seen in subsequent images was a background star. We hereby retract GCN 24051.
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