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GCN Circular 32769

Subject
GRB 221009A: continued Assy optical afterglow observations, possible SN evidence
Date
2022-10-16T15:33:29Z (2 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
S. Belkin (IKI, HSE), V. Kim (FAI), A. Pozanenko (IKI),  M. Krugov 
(FAI), Y. Aimuratov (FAI), N. Pankov (HSE) report on behalf of GRB IKI FuN:

We continue observations of GRB 221009A (Swift J1913.1+1946) (Dichiara 
et al., GCN 32632; Kennea and Williams, GCN  32635; Veres et al., GCN 
32636; Bissaldi et al., GCN  32636; Svinkin et al., GCN 32641; Piano et 
al., GCN 32657; Pillera et al., GCN 32658;  Gotz et al., GCN 32660; 
Frederiks et al., GCN 32668)  with AZT-20 telescope of Assy-Turgen 
observatory.  The observations were carried out  on 2022-10-11 -- 
2022-10-15. The optical afterglow ( GCNs 32632,  32635, 32636, 32641, 
32657, 32658, 32660, 32666, 32668, 32670, 32671, 32676, 32677, 32678, 
32679, 32680, 32683, 32684, 32685, 32686, 32691, 32692, 32693, 32694, 
32695, 32700, 32705, 32707, 32709, 32727, 32729, 32730, 32736, 32738, 
32739, 32740, 32743, 32746, 32749, 32750; 32752; 32753; 32755; 32758; 
32765).

Preliminary photometry of the afterglow on 2022-10-15 is following

Date       UT start  t-T0       Exp.   Filter  OT    Err.   UL(3sigma)
                     (mid, days)  (s)
2022-10-15 15:29:43  6,10259    30*60  g'      22.60  0.12  23.4
2022-10-15 14:25:00  6,05765    30*60  r'      20.96  0.05  22.9
2022-10-15 14:56:19  6,07939    30*60  i'      20.00  0.04  23.2 
2022-10-15 16:01:07  6,11918    15*60  z'      19.31  0.08  21.0
The photometry is based on the nearby PS1 stars.

The light curve based in our photometry can be found in 
http://grb.rssi.ru/GRB221009A/GRB221009A_lc_cc_7_cut.png

The power law (PL) fit parameters are also shown in the figure and do 
not include photometry on 2022-10-15. It can be seen that the color 
change g-i and photometry g, r on October 15, 2022 deviate significantly 
from the PL approximation. We hypothesize that this behaviour may 
indicate a supernova rise.
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