GCN Circular 2054
Subject
GRB 030329: beginning of the new fading phase in optical band
Event
Date
2003-04-01T00:47:11Z (23 years ago)
From
Denis Denissenko at IKI, Moscow <denis@hea.iki.rssi.ru>
R. Burenin, R. Sunyaev, D. Denissenko, M. Pavlinsky, O. Terekhov,
A. Tkachenko (IKI); Z. Aslan, K. Uluc, I. Khamitov (TUG); U. Kiziloglu,
A. Alpar, A. Baykal (METU); I. Bikmaev, N. Sakhibullin, V. Suleymanov (KSU)
report:
We continue observations of the GRB 030329 optical afterglow (Peterson
and Price, GCN 1985) with 1.5-m Russian-Turkish Telescope RTT150
at Bakyrlytepe. Assuming that star "A" has R=16.20 we have measured
the following magnitudes:
t-t0,hours UT R
54.3 March 31.75 16.91
55.2 31.78 16.92
57.1 31.86 16.99
We see the beginning of new phase of fading of the optical afterglow.
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