GCN Circular 6629
Subject
GRB 070616: No Evidence for I Band Afterglow
Event
Date
2007-07-15T16:06:28Z (18 years ago)
From
Alexander Kann at TLS Tautenburg <kann@tls-tautenburg.de>
D. A. Kann & A. C. Wilson (TLS Tautenburg) report:
We reobserved the field of GRB 070616 (Starling et al., GCN 6542) with the
Tautenburg 1.34m Schmidt telescope. We obtained 6 x 300 second images in
the I band in good observing conditions but with a few passing clouds.
Using the same USNOB1.0 star as used by Kann et al. (GCN 6545), we
determine the following limiting magnitude:
date time (days) exp. time Ic limit
070715.00750 28.32031 6 x 300 21.6
Using this star and three other unsaturated, isolated stars, we determine
differential magnitudes between the star that is blended with the
afterglow (de Pasquale et al., GCN 6557) and these stars at both epochs.
We find that between the two epochs the star has become fainter by 0.064,
0.023, 0.041 and 0.001 magnitudes in comparison to the other four stars.
The typical errors are 0.02 magnitudes.
We therefore conclude that we detect no significant fading between epoch
one (star + possibly blended afterglow) and epoch two (star only), placing
a limit of Ic > 20 on the afterglow at the first epoch (Kann et al., GCN
6545).
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