GCN Circular 5901

V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, D.Kuvshinov, N.Tyurina, A.Belinski, E.Gorbovskoy,
A.Krylov, G.Borisov, A.Sankovich, V.Vladimirov, P.Gritsyk

Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow Union 'Optic'

MASTER  robotic system (http://observ.pereplet.ru)
responded to GRB060926 (Holland  et al., GCN Circ 5612) under the good 
conditions (V. Lipunov et al., GCN Circ 5632).

The first image was started at 2006-09-26 16:49:57 UT, 76 s  after the GRB
time (355 mm telescope, 6 square degrees FOV, 2.1'' per pix, CCD Alta U16).
The unfiltered image is calibrated relative to USNO A2.0 (0.8 R + 0.2 B).
We find (Lipunov et al., GCN5632
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) faint OT on the first and on  the 
coadded images at position:

aplha = 17 35 43.66
dec   = 13 02 18.3
err = +- 0.7''

wich coincided with the Holland  et al.(GCN Circ 5612) OT position.

  We have refind analysis of the images. We discovery optical
flare around 500-700 s after the GRB time (see picture):

Start    Mean   Exposure        Magnitude            Flux, 
time     time     time                          erg/(sm2*sec*eV)

  76 s     91 s     30 s         17.3+-0.3        (1,4+-0,3)E-13 
150 s    165 s     30 s     	18.5+-0.3        (4,6+-1,1)E-14 
165 s	 343 s    5x30 s        19.3+-0.3        (2,2+-0,5)E-14 
255 s    432 s    5x30 s        18.9+-0.3	 (3,2+-0,8)E-14 
343 s	 519 s    5x30 s        18.5+-0.3    	 (4,6+-1,1)E-14 
432 s	 608 s    5x30 s        18.3+-0.3    	 (5,8+-1,3)E-14
519 s	 707 s    5x30 s        18.4+-0.3        (5,1+-1,2)E-14 
608 s	 804 s	  5x30 s        18.7+-0.3	 (3,9+-0,9)E-14 
707 s	1001 s    5x30 s        20.0+-0.3    	 (1,2+-0,3)E-14 
804 s	1200 s    5x30 s        20.1+-0.3    	 (1,1+-0,3)E-14 
901 s	1298 s    5x30 s      > 20.1+-0.3    	<(1,1+-0,3)E-14

The light curve is available at 
http://observ.pereplet.ru/images/GRB060926/light_curve_new.jpg .

Between 91s and 255s a power-law decline with a temporal index 
of -1.40+/-0.24 is estimated. Between 707s and 1200s a power-law decline 
with a temporal index of -3.30+/-0.70 is estimated. After 1000 s  a 
power-law decline with a temporal index 0.73 +-0.1 was observed
(A. Stefanescu et al., GCN 5623
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).

We remember that X-ray flare in GRB 060926  was descovered
by XRT team (M. Perri et al., GCN 5622
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).

The X-ray spectrum covering the time period from T+67s to T+878s is well
fit by an absorbed power-law with a photon index of 2.1(+/-0.3) and column
density of (2.2+/-0.9)e21 cm**-2 (M. Perri et al., GCN 5622
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). They note 
the Galactic column density in the direction of the source is 7.3e20 
cm**-2 .
This means that absorbtion  is about 1 magnitude in our band.
The optical-xray data is well fit by power-low with a photon index of 
1.7+-0.2 during all our time observation.


We thanks to Dr.K.A.Postnov for usefull discussion and comments.

This work is supported by RFFI  04-02-16411 grant.
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Mailto: lipunov@sai.msu.ru