GCN Circular 6969
Subject
GRB 071010B: Fading quickly
Date
2007-10-22T01:03:04Z (17 years ago)
From
Myungshin Im at Seoul Nat U <mim@astro.snu.ac.kr>
M. Im, I. Lee (Seoul National University), and Y. Urata
(Saitama University) on behalf of the EAFON team:
Using the Mt. Lemmon (Arizona, US) 1.0m telescope
operated by the Korea Astronomy Space Science Institute,
we continued our observation of GRB071010B (GCN 6871,
Markwardt et al.), beginning at 11:00:20 UT on Oct 21.
(10.59 days after the burst).
Now, the optical afterglow (GCN 6873, Oksanen et al.) is very faint,
and we have only a very marginal detection in our data.
The faintness of the afterglow further confirms the light curve break
(GCN6935, Kann et al.; GCN6957, Im, Lee, and Urata, et al.),
and the GRB is quickly fading.
Photometry of the object is given below.
t_start (UT) Filter exp (sec) R-mag err
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Oct. 21,
11:00:20 R 16x300 23.0 0.6
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