GCN Circular 7710
Subject
GRB 080319B: Further HST observations and underlying host
Date
2008-05-12T18:35:30Z (17 years ago)
From
Andrew Levan at U.of Leicester <anl@star.le.ac.uk>
A.J. Levan (U. Warwick), N.R. Tanvir (U. Leicester), A.S. Fruchter (STScI)
and J. Graham (STScI) report:
We have obtained a second epoch of HST observations of GRB 080319B on 11
May 2008. 2 orbits (3200s) of observations were taken in the F606W and
F814W filters. The afterglow has clearly faded from our first epoch of
observations and a faint host galaxy is now visible at the afterglow
location. We measure magnitudes for the combined (afterglow+host) source
of;
F606W(AB)=26.3 +/ -0.1
F814W(AB)=25.9 +/ -0.1
Relative astrometry between the two epochs of HST observations suggests
that the afterglow is marginally (0.1 +/- 0.05 arcseconds) offset from the
centroid of the host galaxy in the F606W image. This implies that the
afterglow may not be the dominant source of light at the current epoch,
and is likely significantly fainter than the magnitudes quoted above.