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GCN Circular 5851

Subject
GRB 061121: MDM Continuing Optical Decay
Date
2006-11-24T20:18:02Z (17 years ago)
From
Jules Halpern at Columbia U. <jules@astro.columbia.edu>
J. P. Halpern & E. Armstrong (Columbia U.) report on behalf of
the MDM Observatory GRB follow-up team:

"Continuing observations of GRB 061121 for a third night
on the MDM 2.4m telescope yield the following results,
using the same calibration as in GCN 5847:

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  Date(UT)  Mid-time(UT)  t-t0(hr)  Exp(s)   R(mag)  +/-
 ---------------------------------------------------------
  Nov. 24      11:43       68.34     900     22.32   0.04
  Nov. 24      12:04       68.69    1200     22.33   0.03
  Nov. 24      12:35       69.21    1500     22.41   0.03
  Nov. 24      12:55       69.54     600     22.36   0.08
 ---------------------------------------------------------

This indicates a slight flattening or deviation from the
previously fitted power-law decay.

Images and light curve are posted at

http://www.astro.columbia.edu/~jules/grb/061121/

This message may be cited."
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