GCN Circular 27804

H. Kumar, V. Bhalerao(IITB), G. C. Anupama, S. Barway, U. Stanzin (IIA)
report on behalf of the GROWTH-India collaboration:

We mistakenly reported the wrong observation time in our previous GCN
27800
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. We deeply apologize for the confusion caused.

Here is the corrected GCN:-
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We followed up GRB 200524A (F. F. Dirirsa et al., GCN 27797
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, A. Ho et al.,
GCN 27799
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) with 0.7m GROWTH-India telescope. We obtained 600-sec exposures
in SDSS g, r, i filters starting at UT 2020-05-24T16:11:57 (~11.11 hrs
after the burst). We detect a faint transient with magnitudes r = 20.56 +/-
0.14 and i = 20.59 +/- 0.28 (calibrated against PanSTARRs PS1 data
release, Flewelling
et al., 2018). The source position matches with the likely afterglow
candidate by A. Ho et al. (GCN 27799
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). The fading rate is approximately 3
magnitudes in ~9.4 hours, consistent with the fading rate reported in the
ZTF GCN. We hereby, confirm ZTF20abbiixp as the afterglow of GRB 200524A.

We obtained the following photometric results:-

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 JD(Start) | T-T0(hrs) | Filter | Mag |

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2458994.174 | 11.11 | g | > 21.01

2458994.183 | 11.33 | r | 20.56 +/- 0.14

2458994.191 | 11.52 | i | 20.59 +/- 0.28

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Given the fast fading of the source, we encourage the followup of the
source. The magnitudes are not corrected for galactic extinction.

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field of view, set up by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and the
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay with support from the Indo-US Science
and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and the Science and Engineering Research
Board (SERB) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government
of India (https://sites.google.com/view/growthindia/). It is located at the
Indian Astronomical Observatory (Hanle), operated by the Indian Institute
of Astrophysics (IIA).