GCN Circular 15423
Subject
GRB 131030A: P60 observations
Date
2013-11-01T00:48:58Z (11 years ago)
From
Daniel Perley at Caltech <dperley@astro.caltech.edu>
D. A. Perley (Caltech) and S. B. Cenko (NASA/GSFC) report on behalf of a
larger collaboration:
We observed the afterglow of GRB 131030A (GCN 15402, Troja et al.) with
the robotic Palomar 60-inch telescope in the g, r, i, and z filters.
Three exposures of 180 seconds each were acquired in each filter at four
separate epochs starting at 5.09, 6.63, 8.12, and 9.65 hours after the
Swift trigger, respectively. The light curve in these bands shows a
steady power-law decline with decay index alpha~0.95, similar to that
reported by RATIR over the same timescale (GCN 15420, Littlejohns et al.)
Photometry from the first epoch (calibrated relative to SDSS) yields:
t_mid(d) exp(s) filter magnitude
0.21434 3x180 g = 19.14 +/- 0.02
0.21912 3x180 r = 18.81 +/- 0.02
0.22391 3x180 i = 18.61 +/- 0.03