Optical Afterglow Observations of the Unusual Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst 040924

K. Y. Huang, Y. Urata, A. V. Filippenko +10

The 1-m telescope at Lulin Observatory and the 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope at Lick Observatory were used to observe the optical afterglow of the short-duration (1.2-…