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GRB 100728A: KAIT optical afterglow detection
Perley et al.
SOURCE: GCN
TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 11007
SUBJECT: GRB 100728A: KAIT optical afterglow detection
DATE: 10/07/28 11:30:36 GMT
FROM: Daniel Perley at U.C. Berkeley <dperley@astro.berkeley.edu>

D. A. Perley, C. R. Klein, A. N. Morgan, and W. Li (UC Berkeley) report on behalf of the KAIT follow-up team:

The Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) responded to GRB 100728A and began taking data starting less than one minute after the trigger. A moderately bright optical transient not present in DSS survey imaging is visible in the initial set of exposures at the following position: RA = 02:56:13.48 dec = +00:16:51.8 (J2000) We measure I = 18.7 +/- 0.3 mag at 10:33:51 UT (t = 95 secs after the BAT trigger) In addition, we also manually slewed the 1.0 meter Nickel telescope and began taking data starting at 6.6 minutes after the trigger; the afterglow is also well-detected and is seen to fade in subsequent exposures. Follow-up is continuing.

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