GCN Circular 5877
Subject
GRB 061121: flattening of the decay
Date
2006-11-28T22:06:09Z (17 years ago)
From
Daniele Malesani at Niels Bohr Inst,Dark Cosmology Center <malesani@astro.ku.dk>
D. Malesani, J. Hjorth, D. Xu, M.D. Stritzinger, D. Watson, J.P.U.
Fynbo, (NBI-Dark), C. Henriksen, K. Holhjem, T. Pursimo, D. Sharapov, H.
Uthas (NOT), report:
We have observed the afterglow of GRB 061121 (Page et al., GCN 5823) at
several epochs with NOT + ALFOSC. Starting from 2006 Nov. 25 on, the
R-band light curve significantly flattened with respect to earlier
observations (e.g. Halpern et al., GCN 5847; Efimov et al., GCN 5870).
This is likely due to the presence of a relatively bright underlying
host galaxy. Some hints of extension are seen in our images taken during
the night of Nov 27, with a seeing of 0.9".
[GCN OPS NOTE(28nov06): Per author's request, a typo in the author name
Holhjem was corrected.]