Skip to main content
Testing. You are viewing the public testing version of GCN. For the production version, go to https://gcn.nasa.gov.
New! Circulars over Kafka, Heartbeat Topic, and Schema v4.1.0. See news and announcements

GCN Circular 30273

Subject
GRB 210619B: KAIT Optical Detection
Date
2021-06-20T13:48:29Z (3 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 the Swift GRB 210619B (D'Avanzo et al.,

GCN 30261) starting at ~8.05 hours after the Swift trigger.

A total of 60x60s images were obtained in the clear (roughly R)

filter. The optical afterglow (D'Avanzo et al., GCN 30261; Lipunov et al.,

GCN 30262; Jelinek et al., GCN 30263; Kong, GCN 30265; Pellegrin et al.,

GCN 30268; Perley, GCN 30271) was clearly detected in each single image.

We measured its brightness of 18.5 +/- 0.1 mag at 8.05 hours after burst,

and decayed to be 18.8 +/- 0.1 mag at 11.07 hours after burst, calibrated

to the Pan-STARRS1 catalog.
Looking for U.S. government information and services? Visit USA.gov