TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  2989
SUBJECT: GRB 050124: K-band afterglow observations
DATE:    05/01/26 22:21:45 GMT
FROM:    Jens Hjorth at U.Copenhagen  <jens@astro.ku.dk>

J. P. U. Fynbo, B. L. Jensen (NBI), B. Thomsen (U. Aarhus), J. Hjorth (NBI),
E. Örndahl, H. Hyvönen (U. Turku) and M. I. Andersen (AIP) report:

"We imaged the 8-arcsec Swift/XRT error circle (GCN 2975) of GRB 050124
(GCN 2972) in the K band with NOT/NOTCam on January 25.11 UT. Object C1, 
suggested to be the NIR afterglow of GRB 050124 (GCN 2978, 2983), was
considerably brighter in the NOTCam image at t+15h than in the Keck/NIRSpec 
image at t+24h (GCN 2978). This confirms the transient nature of the source
and strengthens the afterglow candidacy."