GCN Circular 6840
Subject
GRB 071003 Optical observations
Event
Date
2007-10-03T17:50:25Z (18 years ago)
From
Kuntal Mishra at ARIES,Nainital,India <kuntal@aries.ernet.in>
K. Misra, S. B. Pandey, Rupak Roy (ARIES, NainiTal, India) and Alberto
J. Castro-Tirado (IAA, Granada) on behalf of larger Indian GRB collaboration
The Swift GRB 071003 (Schady et al. GCN 6837) was observed using 1.04 m
Sampurnanand Telescope. The optical afterglow candidate reported by Li
(GCN 6838), Cenko & Fox (GCN 6839) is clearly seen in U and B band
frames in 300 sec exposure each. The fading nature of the source is seen
and U ~ 17 mag was measured around 7.5 hours after the burst. The
contamination due
to the nearby bright stars makes the photometry complicated. Multiband
observations and detailed observations are underway.
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