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GCN Circular 7538

Subject
GRB 080330A: ROTSE-III Detection of Optical Counterpart
Date
2008-03-30T04:04:25Z (17 years ago)
From
Brad Schaefer at LSU <schaefer@grb.phys.lsu.edu>
B. E. Schaefer (Louisiana State) and T. Guver (U Istanbul) report on
behalf of the ROTSE collaboration:

ROTSE-IIIb, located at McDonald Observatory, Texas, responded to GRB 
080330A (Swift trigger 308041). The first image was at 03:41:39.2 UT, 22.4 
s after the burst (7.2 s after the GCN notice time). The unfiltered images 
are calibrated relative to USNO A2.0. We detect a new object, not visible 
in the DSS (second epoch), with coordinates:

     11:17:04.5 +30:37:24.0 (J2000), 

with positional uncertainty of 1" or better.  This is inside the XRT error
box.  The object is roughly 17.5 magnitude, and it declined immediately
only to rise again to a peak at 16.9 mag roughly ~300 seconds after the
burst.  A jpeg image is available at
http://www.rotse.net/images/gsb308041_3b00_img.jpg

Continuing observations are in progress.
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