GCN Circular 31823
Subject
GRB 220403B: Nanshan/NEXT optical afterglow power-law decay
Date
2022-04-03T23:17:19Z (2 years ago)
From
Dong Xu at NAOC/CAS <dxu@nao.cas.cn>
Z.P. Zhu (NAOC,HUST), S.Q. Jiang, X. Liu, S.Y. Fu, D. Xu (NAOC), X. Gao
(Urumqi No.1 Senior High School), J.Z. Liu (XAO) report:
We observed the field of GRB 220403B detected by Swift (Klingler et al.,
GCN 31820) using the NEXT-0.6m telescope located at Nanshan, Xinjiang,
China. Observations started at 21:10:31 UT on 2022-04-03 (i.e., 27.8 min
after the BAT trigger), and a series of 300 s frames were obtained in
the Sloan r-filters.
The optical afterglow (Klingler et al., GCN 31820) is clearly detected
in each of our images. The preliminary photometric analysis shows that
the afterglow decays from r ~ 19.04 to r ~ 19.64 in 47 minutes, with a
decay index of \alpha ~ 0.6 (F_t ~ t^-\alpha), calibrated the nearby PS1
stars.
Our measurement is consistent with that in other reports (Jelinek et
al., GCN 31821; Nicuesa Guelbenzu et al., GCN 31822).