GCN Circular 1984
Subject
GRB 030328: OT photometry
Event
Date
2003-03-29T12:34:20Z (23 years ago)
From
Avishay Gal-Yam at Tel Aviv U, Israel <avishay@wise1.tau.ac.il>
A. Gal-Yam, E. O. Ofek and D. Polishook (Wise observatory, TAU) report:
We have observed the OT (Peterson & Price 2003, GCN 1974)
of GRB 030328 (Villasenor et al. 2003, GCN 1978) using the Wise observatory 1m
telescope + SITe CCD camera, starting March 28, 21:48 UT (10 hours after
the burst). B, V and R-band frames (300 s each) were obtained under fair
to moderate conditions, but incoming clouds prevented further observations.
We detect the OT on the R-band image, at magnitude about 20.5, roughly
consistent with the predictions of Price (GCN 1977) and the observations
of Fugazza et al. (GCN 1982). Further analysis is underway, and B and
V-band upper limits will be derived once the field is calibrated.