GCN Circular 6574
Subject
GRB 070621: VLT optical observations
Date
2007-06-22T18:38:01Z (17 years ago)
From
Paolo D'Avanzo at INAF-OAB <paolo.davanzo@brera.inaf.it>
P. D'Avanzo (INAF - OABr) V. D'Elia (INAF - OAR), D. Fugazza, G.
Tagliaferri (INAF - OABr) on behalf of the MISTICI collaboration and D.
Malesani and J.P.U. Fynbo (DARK/NBI) report:
We observed the field of GRB070621 (Sbarufatti et al., GCN 6560) with
the ESO-VLT equipped with the FORS1 camera in the R and I bands.
Observations were carried out on Jun 22.36 and 22.38 UT (0.39 and 0.41
days after the GRB) in the I and R filters, respectively.
We detect two extended sources near the revised XRT error box
(Sbarufatti et al. GCN 6569), reported by different authors (Malesani et
al. GCN 6565, Tanvir et al. GCN 6570, Bloom et al. GCN 6568 and GCN
6572), at the following coordinates (J2000):
S1) R.A. = 21:35:10.08, Dec. = -24:49:07.5
S2) R.A. = 21:35:10.27, Dec. = -24:49:02.8
with an uncertainty of 0.4".
A comparison between the NOT (Malesani et al. GCN 6565) and VLT images
shows that source S1 remained constant between the NOT and VLT
observation up to 0.1 mag.
Source S2 is not visible in the NOT image, so that a direct comparison
is not possible. When considering the roughly simultaneous WHT I-band
measurement by Tanvir et al. (GCN 6570), we note a small discrepancy
(~0.5 mag) in the magnitude of source S1. After taking into account this
uncertainty, no variability can be claimed for source S2 as well.
Source S1 appears elongated in the East/West direction, consistent with
the superposition of two objects as resolved in the adaptive-optics Keck
image (Bloom et al. GCN 6572).
We acknowledge the support of the ESO staff.
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