TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 18244
SUBJECT: GRB 150818A: TSHAO and SAO RAS optical observations
DATE: 15/09/07 09:29:09 GMT
FROM: Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow
E. Mazaeva (IKI), A. Moskvitin (SAO RAS), I. Reva (Fesenkov
Astrophysical Institute), A. Kusakin (Fesenkov Astrophysical
Institute), A. Volnova (IKI), A. Pozanenko (IKI) report on behalf of
larger GRB follow-up collaboration:
We are continuing observations the field of Swift GRB 150818A (D'Elia et
al., GCNC 18152) with
Zeiss-1000 1-m telescope of Tien Shan
Astronomical Observatory and Zeiss-1000, 1-m telescope of SAO RAS. The
optical transient (Marshall et al. GCN 18155; McCauley et al. GCN 18161;
Mazaeva et al. GCN 18175; Sanchez-Ramirez et al. GCN 18177; Mazaeva et
al. GCN 18182, GCN 18189, GCN 18205; Schulze et al. GCN 18179) is
clearly visible on combined images in each epochs. The updated light
curve of Supernova (de Ugarte Postigo et al. GCN 18213; Mazaeva et al.
GCN 18205) + host galaxy (Sanchez-Ramirez et al., GCN 18177; de Ugarte
Postigo et al. GCN 18213) can be found in
http://grb.rssi.ru/GRB150818A/GRB150818A_R_lc.pngThe evident maximum of SN brightness (in Rc-filter) was on ~ Sep. 1-2,
and the brightness of SN+host galaxy was R ~ 21.1 +/- 0.1 on Sep. 6 (UT)
18:00. We are grateful to V.P. Goranskiy for assistance in SAO RAS
observations.