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GCN Circular 1300

Subject

GRB 020322 optical observations

Date

2002-03-23T16:23:32Z (22 years ago)

From

Jens Hjorth at U.Copenhagen <jens@astro.ku.dk>

J. Hjorth, on behalf of Javier Gorosabel (who is in transit) and the
Danish/Spanish GRB collaboration, reports observations of the likely
optical afterglow of GRB 020322 obtained with the NOT on Mar 23 2002 UT.

A smoothed R-band image (6 x 900 sec) is posted at

http://www.dsri.dk/~jgu/grb020322/322.R.smooth.gif

By comparison with the image posted by Bloom et al. (GCN #1296Not found
 
 
)
it is evident that the likely optical afterglow (object b,
cf. GCN ##1294,1296,1298,1299) had faded to below R ~ 24 at
the time of observations.