GCN Circular 17869
Subject
GRB 150523A: LCOGT FTS afterglow confirmation
Event
Date
2015-05-25T10:06:33Z (11 years ago)
From
Simone Dichiara at Ferrara U/Italy <dichiara@fe.infn.it>
S. Dichiara, C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), S.Kobayashi (LJMU),
C.G. Mundell (U. Bath), A. Gomboc (U. Ljubljana) on behalf
of a larger collaboration report:
On May 24 we re-observed GRB 150523A (Yu et al GCN 17863;
Bissaldi et al. GCN 17864) using the 2-m Faulkes Telescope South
(FTS) with SDSS r and i filters, starting from 08:53 UT (~23.4 hours
post burst). Compared with our previous report (Dichiara et al.
GCN 17868) the optical candidate appears to have significantly
faded, as follows:
Mid time(hrs) Exp(s) Filter Magnitude
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13.87 10x120 r' 20.45 +- 0.15
23.69 10x120 r' 21.20 +- 0.22
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The corresponding average power-law decay index is 1.3 +- 0.5.
Magnitudes are calibrated against USNOB-1 nearby stars.
We therefore confirm the afterglow nature of the optical
candidate previously reported.