GCN Circular 29318
Subject
GRB 210104A: Late-time CAHA 2.2m detection
Event
Date
2021-01-18T15:51:26Z (6 years ago)
From
Alexander Kann at IAA-CSIC <kann@iaa.es>
D. A. Kann (HETH/IAA-CSIC), A. Rossi (INAF-OAS), A. de Ugarte Postigo
(HETH/IAA-CSIC, DARK/NBI), C. C. Thoene (HETH), M. Blazek, J. F. Agui
Fernandez (both HETH/IAA-CSIC), and J. I. Vico Linares (CAHA) report:
We observed the afterglow position (Troja et al., GCN #29233) of the
bright Swift/Fermi GRB 210104A (Swift detection: Troja et al., GCN
#29233; GBM detection: Fermi GBM Team, GCN #29232; Biltzinger et al.,
GCN #29234; Konus-Wind detection: Frederiks et al., GCN #29258; CALET
detection: Cherry et al., GCN #29268; AstroSat CZTI detection: Nadella
et al., GCN #29299) with CAFOS at the 2.2m telescope at Calar Alto,
Almeria, Spain, in the Rc band. We obtained 6 x 600 s exposures,
centered at 11.4624 days after the GRB, under good conditions but
mediocre seeing.
After removing the halo of a nearby star, the afterglow (Xin et al., GCN
#29235; Hu et al., GCN #29236; Hosokawa et al., GCN #29237; Kim et al.,
GCNs #29238,29265,29283; Horiuchi et al., GCN #29241; Breeveld et al.,
GCN #29247; Lipunov et al., GCN #29248; Zhu et al., GCN #29252; Paek et
al., GCN #29254; Kumar et al., GCN #29257; Smartt et al., GCN #29262;
Anandagoda et al., GCN #29273; Gokuldass et al., GCN #29274; Mao et al.,
GCN #29275; Moskvitin et al., GCN #29277; Belkin et al., GCN #29286;
Nakamura et al., GCN #292291) is faintly but clearly detected.
Against three SDSS comparison stars (transformed to Rc band using the
Lupton 2005 equations, then transformed back to AB magnitude), we
measure Rc = 23.67 +/- 0.14 mag. This value is in agreement with the
extrapolation of the light curve decay reported by Belkin et al., GCN
#29286 (A. Pozanenko, priv. comm.). This implies there is no significant
evidence for a supernova rise, and therefore the redshift of GRB 210104A
is conservatively estimated to be z > 0.4 (e.g., SN 2012eb associated
with GRB 120714B at z ~ 0.4 peaks at r' ~ 22.2 mag 12 days after
trigger, Klose et al. 2019, A&A, 622, A138).
We thank Alexei Pozanenko for discussions.