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GCN Circular 1586

Subject
GRB021004: continued fading
Date
2002-10-06T03:47:34Z (22 years ago)
From
David Bersier at Harvard-Smithsonian-CfA <dbersier@cfa.harvard.edu>
D. Bersier, J. Winn, K.Z. Stanek (Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics), P. Garnavich (Notre Dame) report:

Images of the afterglow associated with GRB 021004 (GCN 1564)
were obtained with the Fred L. Whipple Observatory 1.2m
telescope on Oct. 6, 2:30 UT. The afterglow has resumed
fading (GCN 1585), after having shown short time scale
variability (GCN 1576, GCN 1578).
We give below our last measurement from the night of Oct. 5
and our first measurement on Oct. 6

Date   Time      R      err_R
-----------------------------
Oct 5  12:11 UT  19.29   0.05
Oct 6  02:30 UT  19.92   0.10


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