GRB 191031D: Zwicky Transient Facility Follow-Up of a Swift Short GRB (Trigger 594249816/191031891)
Abstract
We observed the localization region of the short GRB 191031D (trigger 594249816/191031891) detected by the Swift XRT, BAT and the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on the Fermi satellite with the Palomar 48 inch telescope equipped with the 47 square degree Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) camera. These observations are part of the ZTF public survey and serendipitously covered the GRB localization. We obtained a series of g-band images beginning at 02:48:56.6 UT on 2019 Nov 01 (5.4 hours after the burst trigger time). This corresponds to ~68% of the probability enclosed in the GBM localization region and the totality of the Swift region. The images were processed through the ZTF reduction and image subtraction pipelines at IPAC to search for potential counterparts. No high-significance transients were identified by our pipeline in the area observed. The median 5 sigma upper limit for an isolated point source in our images was g > 20.8 mag for these observations. ZTF is a project led by PI S. R. Kulkarni at Caltech (see ATEL #11266 <http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=11266>), and includes IPAC; WIS, Israel; OKC, Sweden; JSI/UMd, USA; UW, USA; DESY, Germany; NRC, Taiwan; UW Milwaukee, USA and LANL USA. ZTF acknowledges the generous support of the NSF under AST MSIP Grant No 1440341. Alert distribution service provided by DIRAC@UW. Alert filtering is being undertaken by the GROWTH marshal system, supported by NSF PIRE grant 1545949.
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GRB Coordinates Network
- Pub Date:
- November 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019GCN.26150....1A