GCN Circular 22414
Subject
GRB 180205A: SEDM Observations
Date
2018-02-13T15:30:27Z (6 years ago)
From
Virginia Cunningham at U of MD <vcunning@astro.umd.edu>
V. Cunningham (U of Maryland), J. D. Neill (Caltech), S. B. Cenko
(NASA GSFC), and R. Walters (Caltech) report on behalf of the
SEDM team:
We observed the optical counterpart to GRB 180205A (Evans et al.,
GCN 22381) with the Spectral Energy Distribution Machine (SEDM)
on the 60 inch telescope at Palomar Observatory. The SEDM is a low
resolution (R ~ 100) integral field unit spectrometer with a multi-band
(ugri) ���rainbow��� camera imager (see Blagorodnova et al., 2017,
astro-ph/1710.02917).
The SEDM began observing the optical counterpart at 04:44 UTC
(18 minutes after the burst trigger time). We performed 2 x 1350 s
exposures over the wavelength range 3800-10600 A. We see no strong
evidence for emission or absorption features at the quoted redshift of
z=1.409 (Tanvir et al., GCN 22384). The continuum emission is well-fit
by a power law spectrum with index alpha = 0.77 (f_nu ~ nu^-alpha).
[GCN OPS NOTE(07sep19): Per author's request, in the last sentence
the "alpha = 0.67" was changed to "alpha = 0.77".]