GCN Circular 9576
Subject
GRB090618: HCT optical observations
Date
2009-06-25T21:41:30Z (16 years ago)
From
D.K. Sahu at Indian Inst of Astrophysics,Bangalore <dks@iiap.res.in>
G.C. Anupama, U.K. Gurugubelli, D.K. Sahu report
Optical afterglow of GRB090618 (Schady et al., GCN 9512) was observed
with the 2m. Himalayan Chandra Telescope of the Indian Astronomical
Observatory, Hanle, India. The optical afterglow was observed in
Bessell R filter and it was detected in all the frames.
The preliminary magnitude of the optical afterglow, calibrated
using the USNO B1 (R1 magnitude) of the nearby stars in the
GRB field is as under:
Date Mid UT Exposure R Mag Error
18-06-2009 19:29 300sec 18.70 0.07
18-06-2009 19:36 300sec 18.75 0.06
19-06-2009 22:08 2x300+450 20.30 0.09