GRB 201214B: Lowell Discovery Telescope optical observations
Abstract
We observed the field of the short GRB 201214B (Simpson et al., GCN 29045; Fermi GBM team, GCN 29039) using the Large Monolithic Imager (LMI) on the 4.3m Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) at Happy Jack, AZ. Observations started on December 15, at 11:21 UT (about 19.2 hours after the Swift trigger) using the SDSS r, i and z filters. Observations were taken at an airmass of about 1.3 and seeing of about 2.5". Our average sensitivity is i<23.5 AB mag. We do not detect any uncatalogued optical source at the position of the Swift/XRT sources reported by Tohuvavohu et al. (GCN 29052). By cross-correlating the refined BAT localization with the GLADE v2.3 galaxy catalog (Dalya et al. 2018), as described in Dichiara et al. (2020), we note the presence of a nearby lenticular galaxy (HyperLEDA-1359588 at ~280 Mpc) within the BAT error circle. Further observations are planned. We thank the staff of the Lowell Discovery Telescope for assistance with these observations.
- Publication:
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GRB Coordinates Network
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020GCN.29054....1D