GCN Circular 1000
Subject
GRB010222 - Optical observation
Date
2001-03-02T02:16:03Z (23 years ago)
From
Christian Veillet at CFHT <veillet@cfht.hawaii.edu>
The optical counterpart of GRB010222 has been observed using the
CFHT Multi Object Spectrograph in imaging mode at the Cassegrain
focus of the 3.6-m CFH Telescope on the night of Feb. 28 to March 1.
Two 10 mn images were obtained in much better conditions than
the night before (GCN #998) with a seeing of about 0.8". There are
only a few point like sources in the vicinity of the OT. A star like
object ~11" S of the OT has been carefully measured with respect
to the two stars used in GCN #998 and has a very consistent R
magnitude on the MOS exposures (R = 20.13 +/- 0.02). A fainter
object 8" from the OT is used for internal consistency checks at
R = 22.35.
Precise reduction of the images from Feb. 28 and March 1 gives the
following results:
Feb. 28.653 UTC R = 22.73 +/- 0.10
Mar. 01.628 UTC R = 22.96 +/- 0.10
The index of the power law decay given in GCN #998 is not
significantly modified and found as 1.25 +/- 0.06.
There is not structure found on the OT, which is still seen as a
point source on the March 1 combined image.
More information (with the new images of the OT) can be found at
http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/~veillet/grb.html
M. Pakull, L. Mirioni, and J. McDonald are acknowledged for their
help in this observation.
This message may be cited.
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Dr. Christian Veillet, CFHT Senior Resident Astronomer
Phone: (808) 885-3161 http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/~veillet/
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