GCN Circular 3662
Subject
GRB 050721: early afterglow light curve
Date
2005-07-22T23:00:24Z (19 years ago)
From
Daniele Malesani at SISSA-ISAS,Trieste,Italy <malesani@sissa.it>
V. Testa, L.A. Antonelli (INAF/OAR), D. Malesani (SISSA), S. Covino, P.
D'Avanzo, G. Tagliaferri (INAF/OABr), G. Chincarini (Univ.
Milano-Bicocca), G.L. Israel, S. Piranomonte, L. Stella (INAF/OAR),
report on behalf of the MISTICI collaboration:
We analyzed the full dataset of the early light curve of the afterglow
of GRB 050721 (Antonelli et al., GCN 3654; Torii, GCN 3655; Covino et
al., GCN 3657), obtained with the ESO VLT in rapid response mode.
The observation, performed in the R band, started 25 min after the GRB
and lasted for 107 minutes (till the object set). It was composed by
several short (30 s), repeated exposures. The light curve is well
described by a single power law, with decay index 1.20 +- 0.01. The
decay is smooth, without any significant rebrightening or deep.
We acknowledge the excellent support provided by the ESO staff in
performing the observations.
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