GCN Circular 2150
Subject
GRB 030418: Optical afterglow
Date
2003-04-18T15:35:07Z (21 years ago)
From
Paul Price at RSAA, ANU <pap@mso.anu.edu.au>
P.A. Price, R. McNaught, G.J. Garradd, M.A. Verrender and T.M. Smith
(RSAA, ANU) report:
We have re-observed the GRB 030418 optical afterglow candidate (GCN #2148)
with the Siding Spring Observatory 40-inch telescope + Direct Imager.
Our observations consisted of another 5x300 sec exposures in R-band,
commencing at April 18.61 UT. Comparison of our two epochs reveals that
the source faded by about 1 magnitude between the two observations, being
R ~ 19.8 mag in the second epoch. We therefore believe this source is the
optical afterglow of GRB 030418.
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