GCN Circular 4123
Subject
GRB 051021 : optical afterglow observation at Lulin
Event
Date
2005-10-21T19:19:48Z (21 years ago)
From
Kuiyun Huang at IANCU <d919003@astro.ncu.edu.tw>
GRB 051021 : optical afterglow observation at Lulin
H.H. Hsieh (IfAUH), M.S. Chang, K.Y. Huang, W.H. Ip (NCU), Y. Urata
(RIKEN), Y. Qiu (BAO) on behalf of the East Asian collaboration
report:
The R-band observations of GRB 051021 (Yoshida et al., GCN 4116) were
taken by Lulin 1-m telescope, Taiwan. The optical afterglow reported
by Fox et al.(GCN 4120) was detected clearly in our R-band
images. Compared with USNOB stars, the R band magnitude of afterglow
is about 19.8 at 15.859 UT (~ 2.48 hrs after the burst).
Further observations are on going.
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