GCN Circular 23742
Subject
GRB 190114C: Optical detection from HCT
Event
Date
2019-01-16T17:00:44Z (7 years ago)
From
Brajesh Kumar at Indian Inst. of Astrophysics <brajesh.kumar@iiap.res.in>
Brajesh Kumar (IIA), S. B. Pandey (ARIES), Avinash Singh (IIA), D. K.
Sahu (IIA), G. C. Anupama (IIA) and Piyali Saha (IIA)
We observed the afterglow of GRB 190114C (Gropp et al., GCN 23688) with
the 2-m Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT) located at the Indian
Astronomical Observatory, Hanle, India. The observations started on
2019-01-15 (14:51:32 UT) and two Bessell R-band images were obtained in
a gap of about 1.3 hr. The exposure time was 200 sec for each frame. The
OT candidate (Lipunov et al., GCN 23693; Selsing et al., GCN 23695;
Bolmer et GCN 23702; D'Avanzo et al., GCN 23729; Kim et al., GCN 23732,
23734; Kumar et al., GCN 23733) is clearly detected in our frames with
the following magnitudes:
UT-mid JD Mag
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2019-01-15 14:53:13 2458499.12 19.70 +/- 0.10
2019-01-15 16:13:33 2458499.18 19.81 +/- 0.09
These magnitudes were calibrated using the magnitudes of field stars
from the USNO-B1.0 catalogue.
We thank the observing staff at IAO and CREST for helping with the
observations.