GCN Circular 1225
Subject
GRB 020124: Optical observations
Event
Date
2002-01-26T15:53:30Z (24 years ago)
From
Dale A. Frail at NRAO <dfrail@nrao.edu>
J. S. Bloom, on behalf of the larger Caltech-NRAO-GRB collaboration,
reports:
"Using the JCAM optical imaging instrument mounted at the Palomar 200"
telescope, we observed the field of GRB 020124 (Ricker et al., GCN
#1220;
Hurley et al., GCN #1223) on Jan 26.33 UT centered on the position of
the
optical transient (Price et al., GCN #1221). In non-photometric
conditions (moderate to thick cirrus) we detect a faint source in the
Sloan r' filter (24 x 200 sec total exposure) which is coincident with
the
transient position. This is in agreement with the imaging results
reported
earlier from Gorosabel et al. (GCN #1224). The coincident source is not
detected in Bessel I-band (8 x 140 sec total exposure).
An image of the field is posted at:
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~jsb/grb020124-jcam.gif
We wish to thank A. Barth, W. W. Sargent, R. Burruss, and J. Mueller for
assistance with these (remote) observations."
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