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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