GCN Circular 20342
Subject
GRB 161219B: Spectroscopic detection of the associated SN with OSIRIS/GTC
Date
2016-12-27T11:13:04Z (8 years ago)
From
Antonio de Ugarte Postigo at IAA-CSIC <deugarte@iaa.es>
A. de Ugarte Postigo (IAA-CSIC, DARK/NBI), Z. Cano, L. Izzo,
C. Thoene, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, K. Bensch (IAA-CSIC), D. A. Kann
(IAA-CSIC, TLS), N. Tanvir (U. Leicester), S. Schulze, G. Leloudas
(Weizmann Institute), S. Geier (IAC, GRANTECAN), A. Tejero
(GRANTECAN) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
We observed the optical counterpart of GRB 161219B (D���Ai et al. GCN
20296) with OSIRIS at the 10.4m GTC telescope on La Palma (Spain).
The observations consisted of 3 x 900 s spectra using grism R1000B,
which covers the spectral region between 3700 and 7800 AA, plus g, r, i
and z-band imaging. The point-like GRB counterpart is prominent on top
of the elongated host galaxy.
The combined spectrum has mean UT epoch on 27.02 December (7.24
days after the burst) and shows a strong continuum with clear broad
features typical of a type Ic-BL supernova, implying that the supernova
contribution is already significant. We also detect several emission
features of the host galaxy (due to [OIII], [OII], [NII] and H) as well as CaII
in absorption at the redshift of z = 0.1475 proposed for the GRB (Tanvir
et al. GCN 20321).