GCN Circular 1989
Subject
GRB 030329: Optical afterglow fading
Date
2003-03-29T14:31:43Z (21 years ago)
From
Makoto Uemura at U. of Kyoto, Astro. <uemura@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
M. Uemura (Kyoto University) reports:
We have started observations of the field of GRB 030329 at 12:53:41
UT, and confirmed the bright afterglow candidate reported in GCN 1985
and 1986. We use 30-cm and 25-cm SC telescopes and unfiltered CCDs at
Kyoto, Japan.
In this one hour observation, our perliminary analysis revealed a
rapid fading of the object. From 12:53:41 UT to 13:51:01, the object
faded about 0.53 mag, which establishes that the bright candidate is
a genuine optical afterglow of GRB 030329.