Gamma-Ray Burst Award

This award is given to an amateur astronomer for the discovery of a gamma-ray burst optical afterglow.

 

Announced in AAVSO Communications for May 2021

Arto Oksanen

for the discovery of the Gamma-Ray Burst optical afterglow of

GRB 210420B

April 20.8229, 2021 UT


Announced at the 103rd Spring Meeting of the AAVSO Ontario, California, June 2014

Arto Oksanen

for the discovery of the Gamma-Ray Burst optical afterglow of

GRB 140206A

February 6.4045, 2014 UT

 

Announced at the 97th Spring Meeting of the AAVSO, Cambridge, England, April 2008

Arto Oksanen

for the discovery of the Gamma-Ray Burst optical afterglow of

GRB 071010B

October 10.8768, 2007 UT

    

Announced at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the AAVSO, Waltham, Massachusetts, on October 30, 2004

Libert (Berto) A. G. Monard

for the discovery of the Gamma-Ray Burst optical afterglow of

GRB 030725

July 25.79, 2003 UT

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