GCN Circular 4259
Subject
GRB 051109A Optical Observations
Date
2005-11-11T12:26:41Z (19 years ago)
From
Kuntal Mishra at ARIES,Nainital,India <kuntal@aries.ernet.in>
Kuntal Misra (ARIES, Nainital), Atish P. Kamble (Raman Research
Institute, Bangalore), D. K. Sahu, S. Srividya, P. Bama, G.C. Anupama and
Mr. S. Vanniarajan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore) on behalf
of a larger Indian GRB collaboration
We observed the field of GRB 051109A (swift trigger=163136) using the 1-m
Sampurnanand Telescope (ST) at ARIES, Naini Tal in Cousins R and I filters
and the 2-m Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT), IAO, Hanle in Bessell B and
V filters, starting nearly 12 hours after the burst. The Optical Transient
(OT) mentioned by Rykoff et al. (GCN 4211) is clearly seen in images of
10 minutes exposure time. The preliminary magnitude of the OT in different
bands in comparison to 5 nearby USNO-B1.0 stars is:
UT Magnitude error Band Telescope used
Nov 09.5681 19.449 0.08 I ST
Nov 09.5796 20.715 0.09 R ST
Nov 09.5463 22.044 0.09 B HCT
The OT decayed by ~ 0.6 mag from Nov 09.5681 to Nov 09.7201 UT
in R band and by 0.28 mag in B in ~2.4 hrs. Further analysis is in
progress.
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