GRB 190630B: KAIT Optical Afterglow Confirmation
Abstract
The 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), located at Lick Observatory, responded to the Swift GRB 190630B (Krimm et al., GCN 24913; Cummings et al. GCN 24918) starting at 310s after the burst. Observations were performed with a sequence in the clear (roughly R), V, and I filters, and the exposure time was 60 s per image. Further analysis on our reported afterglow candidate (Zheng & Filippenko, GCN 24914) shows that the candidate position is within the enhanced XRT error circle (Page et al., GCN 24919), and its brightness faded more than 2 magnitude during our ~2 hours observing range. We therefore confirm this is the optical afterglow of GRB 190630B. A preliminary KAIT clear band light curve is available at: http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~zwk/grb/GRB190630B/GRB190630B_kait.jpg
- Publication:
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GRB Coordinates Network
- Pub Date:
- July 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019GCN.24931....1Z