GCN Circular 6176
Subject
GRB070306: confirmation of near infrared afterglow
Date
2007-03-07T04:29:30Z (17 years ago)
From
Evert Rol at U.Leicester <er45@star.le.ac.uk>
A. Levan (Warwick), E. Rol (Leicester), N. Tanvir (Leicester),
M. Schirmer (ING) and A.J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC Granada), on behalf
of a larger collaboration, report:
We have re-observed the location of GRB 070306 (Pandey et al., GCNC
6169) with WHT+LIRIS, in K-band. Observations started at 00:39 UT,
7.97 hours after the trigger. Comparison with our previous K-band
observation (Rol et al., GCNC 6174) shows the suggested candidate
afterglow to have increased in brightness by about a magnitude,
confirming it to be variable and the near infrared afterglow of GRB
070306. Further observations are strongly encouraged.
[GCN OPS NOTE(07mar07): Per author's request, the typo in the Subject
was changed from "070603" to "070306".]