GCN Circular 29319
Subject
GRB 210112A: Deep CAHA 2.2m detection
Event
Date
2021-01-18T15:53:55Z (5 years ago)
From
Alexander Kann at IAA-CSIC <kann@iaa.es>
D. A. Kann (HETH/IAA-CSIC), 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 (Ambrosi et al., GCN #29289) of the
bright Swift GRB 210112A (Swift detection: Ambrosi et al., GCN #29289;
AGILE detection: Ursi et al., GCN #29293; Konus-Wind detection: Svinkin
et al., GCN #29315) with CAFOS at the 2.2m telescope at Calar Alto,
Almeria, Spain, in the Ic band. We obtained 10 x 360 s exposures,
centered at 5.1696 days after the GRB, under good conditions but
mediocre seeing.
The afterglow (Kann et al., GCNs #29296,29300; Siegel et al., GCN
#29303) is faintly detected. We measure Ic = 23.69 +/- 0.24 mag. (AB
mag, vs. a several nearby SDSS stars converted to Ic following the
Lupton transformations, then transformed back to AB mag).
This magnitude lies slightly above the extrapolation of the decay found
during the first two epochs (Kann et al., GCN #29300) and may indicate
an underlying host galaxy. Indeed we also see another faint, possibly
extended source about 2" to the East, at RA (J2000) = 14:36:01.453, Dec.
(J2000) = +33:03:13.40, which may be the host galaxy or a system
interacting with it. However, the rough redshift estimate of z ~ 2 (Kann
et al., GCN #29296) would imply this must be a very luminous system, or
a foreground interloper.