GCN Circular 29441
Subject
GRB 210207B: Continued LCO Observations
Date
2021-02-09T16:35:12Z (3 years ago)
From
Robert Strausbaugh at U. of the Virgin Islands <robert.strausbaugh@uvi.edu>
R. Strausbaugh (U. of the Virgin Islands), A. Cucchiara (U. of the Virgin Islands/College of Marin) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
We performed a second set of observations on Swift GRB 210207B (Lien, GCN 29420) with the LCO 1-m Sinistro instrument at the McDonald Observatory, Texas, USA site, on February 9, from 11:19 to 11:24 UT (corresponding to 37.23 to 37.31 hours from the GRB trigger time) with the Bessel R filter.
We performed a second series of 4x60s exposures in R band. We no longer detect a source at the location consistent with other optical detections (Lien, GCN 29420; Kumar, GCN ; Zheng, GCN 29430; Strausbaugh, GCN 29431). Using the USNO-B.1 catalog as reference, we calculate the following upper limit:
R > 21.42
These magnitudes are not corrected for galactic extinction. This lack of a detection provides further evidence for the transient nature of this source. As a correction to GCN 29431, the series of exposures in R and I bands were 4x60s, not the originally reported 5x60s.
R.S. is funded by NSF AST grant #1831682