GCN Circular 2983
Subject
GRB 050124: NIR afterglow confirmed with Keck/NIRC
Event
Date
2005-01-26T11:52:36Z (21 years ago)
From
Edo Berger at Carnegie Obs <eberger@ociw.edu>
E. Berger (Carnegie Observatories) and S.R. Kulkarni (Caltech) report on
behalf of a larger collaboration:
"We re-observed the 8-arcsec XRT error circle (GCN 2975) of GRB 050124
(GCN2972) with Keck/NIRC on January 26.47 UT. A total of 18 min were
obtained in the Ks band. We find that object C1 in our previous Keck/NIRC
image (GCN 2978) has faded by about 0.5 mag, while object C2 remained
constant in flux. We therefore conclude that C1 is the afterglow of GRB
050124."
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