GCN Circular 1902
Subject
GRB 030226, optical observations
Event
Date
2003-02-27T22:11:25Z (23 years ago)
From
Peter Garnavich at U of Notre Dame <pgarnavi@miranda.phys.nd.edu>
K. von Braun (DTM), P. Garnavich (Notre Dame), K. Stanek (CfA)
We have imaged the optical afterglow of GRB 030226
(Fox et al. GCN 1879; von Braun et al. GCN 1881) with the
1-m Swope telescope at Las Campanas on Feb. 27.17 (UT),
or 1.01 days after the burst. Using the calibration of
Garnavich, von Braun & Stanek (GCN 1885), we find a
brightness of R=20.65 +/- 0.10 for the afterglow. This
is agrees within the errors with the observations by
Greiner et al. (GCN 1894) and is consistent with an
early break.
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