GRB 240415A: optical afterglow detection from the INAF Asiago Observatory
Abstract
We carried out follow-up optical observations of GRB 240415A (Fermi GBM Team, GCN Circ. #36107; Moss et al., GCN Circ. #36108) from the INAF - Padova Astronomical Observatory located in Asiago (Italy) with the 67/92 Schmidt telescope starting on 2024-04-15 at 19:13:10 UT (~ 12.8 hours after the burst) with the r-sdss filter. In our stacked image the optical afterglow (Pankov et al., GCN Circ. #36118; Pankov et al., GCN Circ. #36121; Moskvitin et al., GCN Circ. #36122) is detected. From preliminary analysis we estimate a magnitude of r = 21.0 +/- 0.3 (AB; calibrated against r band of the PanSTARRS catalog). Further observations are ongoing.
- Publication:
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GRB Coordinates Network
- Pub Date:
- April 2024
- Bibcode:
- 2024GCN.36123....1R