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GCN Circular 24914

Subject
GRB Swift Trigger 912102: KAIT Optical Afterglow Candidate
Date
2019-06-30T06:25:22Z (6 years ago)
From
Weikang Zheng at UC Berkeley <weikang@berkeley.edu>
WeiKang Zheng and Alexei V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley) report on
behalf of the KAIT GRB team:

The 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), located at
Lick Observatory, responded to Swift GRB Trigger 912102
starting at Jun. 30, 06:07:18 UT. We detected an uncataloged,
faiding optical afterglow candidate at position:
RA:  14:54:48.19 (J2000)
Dec: +41:31:35.84 (J2000)
We estimate the clear band magnitude ~19.9 in out firt clear
band image.
Observation are on going, multi-band follow-ups are encouraged.
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