Skip to main content
Testing. You are viewing the public testing version of GCN. For the production version, go to https://gcn.nasa.gov.
Announcing GCN Classic Migration Survey, End of Legacy Circulars Email. See news and announcements

GCN Circular 8618

Subject
GRB 081203A: Optical observations of Xinglong TNT telescope
Date
2008-12-05T07:57:42Z (16 years ago)
From
L.P. Xin at NAOC <xlp@bao.ac.cn>
H. Liu, J. Wang, L.P. Xin, Y.L. Qiu, J.Y. Wei, J.Y. Hu, 
J.S. Deng, W.K. Zheng and Y. Urata on behalf of EAFON report:

We have observed GRB081203A (Parsons et al., GCN 8595) 
with Xinglong TNT telescope from Dec.03th,13:57:11(UT),
6.43 hr after the burst to Dec.03,22:19:37.67 (UT).
A series of R band and V band have been obtained.
The optical afterglow was clearly detected in all the images.

Further observations of GRB081203A were also made with 
Xinglong TNT telescope from Dec.04th,21:29:30.409(UT). The 
OT was still marginal detected after combined 11*600s images.

we found the afterglow dacayed from R=19.0 at 7.25 hr to 
R=21.1 at 24.6 hr. The decay slope index is about 1.59, which is
consistent with the index derived from Volkov et al,(GCN 8604).

Further observations are encouraged.

This message may be cited.

For more information about Xinglong GRBs Follow-up 
observations, please visit the website:
http://www.xinglong-naoc.org/grb/
Looking for U.S. government information and services? Visit USA.gov