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GCN Circular 7406

Subject

GRB 080310: PAIRITEL detection and PAIRITEL+KAIT+UVOT SED

Date

2008-03-11T09:20:24Z (16 years ago)

From

Daniel Perley at U.C. Berkeley <dperley@astro.berkeley.edu>

D. A. Perley, J. S. Bloom, and W. Li (UC Berkeley) report:

PAIRITEL responded to GRB 080310 and began taking data at UT 2008-03-10 
  09:04:58 in J, H, and K filters simultaneously.  The afterglow 
(Chornock et al., GCN 7381Not found
 
 
) is well-detected in all three filters.  We 
report the following magnitudes:

t_mid(s)  exp(s)  magnitude
1833      259     J = 15.63 +/- 0.03
1833      259     H = 14.94 +/- 0.03
1833      259     K = 14.29 +/- 0.03

Combining PAIRITEL data with 347 KAIT observations (calibrated to SDSS 
DR6) and the UVOT magnitudes reported by Hoversten et al. (GCN 7398Not found
 
 
), we 
generate a UV-through-IR spectral energy distribution interpolated to 
the midpoint of the PAIRITEL observations.  The SED is well-fit by an 
intrinsic power-law spectral index of beta ~ 0.6 with a small amount 
(A_V = 0.10 +/- 0.05) of SMC-like host-galaxy extinction:

http://lyra.berkeley.edu/~dperley/080310/080310sed.png

Additional, late-time follow-up is planned.