GCN Circular 13185
Subject
GRB 120326A: HCT optical observations
Date
2012-04-01T11:06:15Z (12 years ago)
From
D.K. Sahu at Indian Inst of Astrophysics,Bangalore <dks@iiap.res.in>
D.K. Sahu, G.C. Anupama (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore)
and S.B. Pandey (ARIES, Nainital) report.
The optical afterglow of GRB 120326A (Siegel et al., GCN 13105)
was observed in Bessell R band, with the 2m. Himalayan Chandra Telescope of
the Indian Astronomical Observatory, Hanle, India. Observations were made
between 22:36 UT and 23:14 UT on 27/03/2012. The optical afterglow was
detected in our individual frames of 300sec each.
The preliminary R magnitudes of the optical afterglow
calibrated using nearby USNO B1.0 stars is as under:
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Date Mid UT Mid time from Exp. R Magnitude
GRB(hrs) (sec)
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23-03-2012 22:55 45.5750 5x300 19.68 +/-0.07
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