GCN Circular 29591
Subject
GRB 210217A: 3.6m DOT optical observations
Event
Date
2021-03-01T07:26:44Z (5 years ago)
From
Dimple Panchal at ARIES, India <dimplepanchal96@gmail.com>
Dimple (ARIES), K. Misra (ARIES), A. Ghosh (ARIES), R. Gupta (ARIES), A.
Kumar (ARIES), B. Kumar (ARIES), S.B. Pandey (ARIES) report:
We carried out the follow-up observations of GRB 210217A ( Simpson et al.
GCN #29521) with Aries Devasthal Faint Object Spectrograph and Camera
(ADFOSC) mounted on the 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT) at Devasthal
observatory of Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES
(ARIES), India. We detected the optical afterglow (Simpson et al. GCNs
#29521,29555; Zhu et al. GCN #29523; Zheng et al. GCN #29533; Shrestha et
al. GCN #29535; Kumar et al., GCN #29539) at ~ 1.7 days after the burst.
Preliminary photometry is following :
Date UT start Filter Exp. (s) Mag err
2021-02-19 15:47:38 r 4*900 22.32 0.17
2021-02-20 16:30:35 r 10*300 >22.60 ----
The reported magnitudes are calibrated with the nearby PanSTARRS field and
are not corrected for Galactic extinction in the direction of the burst.
Using our data along with the data taken from Zhu et al. GCN #29523; Zheng
et al. GCN #29533; Kumar et al., GCN #29539, we obtain a decay index of
0.47 +- 0.03 consistent with the value quoted by Shrestha et al. # GCN
29535.
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