[vsnet-grb-info 6670] GRB 080916C: GROND Confirmation of the Optical
Afterglow
GCN Circulars
gcncirc at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Fri Sep 19 19:09:43 JST 2008
TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 8273
SUBJECT: GRB 080916C: GROND Confirmation of the Optical Afterglow
DATE: 08/09/19 10:08:07 GMT
FROM: Christian Clemens at MPE <cclemens at mpe.mpg.de>
C. Clemens (MPE Garching), A. Rossi (Tautenburg Obs.), J. Greiner, S. McBreen,
T. Kruehler, A. Yoldas (all MPE Garching), A. Kupcu Yoldas (ESO) and G.
Szokoly (Eoetvoes Univ., Budapest) report on behalf of the GROND team:
We observed the field of GRB 080916C for a second time with GROND at 08:04 UT
on September 19th, 2008, 3.3 d after the GBM trigger with 54 min of effective
exposures. Observations were performed at an average seeing of 1.7" and at an
average airmass of 1.7.
We do not detect the afterglow candidate first reported by Clemens et al. (GCN
#8257) with the following 5-sigma upper limits:
z' > 22.7 mag.
These measurements strongly indicate a fading of the source compared to our
first epoch observations. We therefore propose this is to be the afterglow of
GRB 080916C.
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