The optical afterglow and host galaxy of GRB 000926.

• Main Authors: Fynbo, J.U., Gorosabel, J., Dall, T.H., Hjorth,, J., Pedersen, H., Andersen, M.I., Møller, P., Holland, S., Smail, I., Kobayashi, N., Roland, E., Vreeswijk, P., Burud, I., Jensen , B.L., Thomsen , B., Henden, A., Vrba , F., Canzian, B., Castro Cerón, J.M., Castro-Tirado, A.J., Cline, T., Goto, M., Greiner, J., Hanski, M.T., Hurley, K., Lund, N., Pursimo, T., Østensen, R., Solheim, J., Tanvir , N., Terada , H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: EDP Sciences 2001
• Subjects: Cosmology; Observations; Gamma rays; Bursts; Norway; Observatorio; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/10874/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/10874/1/10874.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20010531

We present the discovery of the Optical Transient (OT) of the long-duration gamma-ray burst GRB 000926. The optical transient was detected independently with the Nordic Optical Telescope and at Calar Alto 22.2 hours after the burst. At this time the magnitude of the transient was R = 19.36. The tran...