TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  19819
SUBJECT: GRB 160816A: confirmed fading with the LT
DATE:    16/08/18 12:23:22 GMT
FROM:    Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy  <guidorzi@fe.infn.it>

C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), S. Kobayashi, I.A. Steele (LJMU), C.G. Mundell 
(U. Bath), A. Gomboc (U. Nova Gorica), N. Tanvir (U. Leicester) on 
behalf of a large collaboration report:

The 2-m Liverpool Telescope observed GRB 160816A from August 17, 23:29 
UT to August 18, 02:44 UT with a total net exposure of 600 s in both 
SDSS-R and SDSS-I filters. The optical afterglow candidate (Guidorzi et 
al. GCN 19808; Troja et al. GCN 19809; Kuin et al. GCN 19815) has faded 
to r=21.8 +- 0.2 mag at 1.3 days post burst, compatibly with an average 
power-law decay index alpha~1.