GCN Circular 592
Subject
GRB000301C - Host galaxy not detected in R (?)
Date
2000-03-05T20:12:30Z (25 years ago)
From
Christian Veillet at CFHT <veillet@cfht.hawaii.edu>
The candidate for the optical transient (OT) associated with the gamma ray burst
GRB000301c has been observed in imaging mode with MOS on the 3.6-m CFH Telescope
in the course of the French GRB follow-up program at CFHT (M. Boer, CESR,
C. Veillet, CFHT).
The R image mentioned in GCN588 has been examined for a possible detection
of the galaxy observed in the near IR (GCN586-587).
Nothing is detected at the reported position (1"E 2"N). The detection limit in
this area of the field is at R~25.
The OT itself has no significant elongation compared to nearby stars.
"Something" is detected at -1"E 2"N though. It was not visible on the
previous R image taken on March 3.5 due to a much poorer seeing (~1.5").
Its magnitude (if real) is 24.7 +/- .3 .
Should I add that more deep imaging is needed?...
Image available at
http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/~veillet/grb.html
D. Elbaz and H. Flores are acknowledged for their help in these observations.
This message may be cited.
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Dr. Christian Veillet, CFHT Senior Resident Astronomer
Phone: (808) 885-3161 http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/~veillet/
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