TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 1743 SUBJECT: GRB 021201 (short/hard), NOT observations DATE: 02/12/12 23:49:08 GMT FROM: Alberto Castro-Tirado at Inst.de Astro. de Andalucia J. M. Castro Cerón (ROA, San Fernando), J. Gorosabel and A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC, Granada) C. M. Gutiérrez and M. López-Corredoira (IAC, La Laguna) report: "On Dec 4.16 UT we observed the field of the short /hard GRB 021201 (GCN 1719) with the 2.5-m Nordic Optical Telescope (+ALFOSC) at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, in order to monitor the entire IPN error box. In the co-added image (5 x 900-s in the r' Sloan filter with a 2".8 seeing), no optical transient is found when comparing to the DSS-2 (R-band). Particularly, a point-like optical source with R about 20.5 is found at coordinates RA(2000) = 08 07 49.35, Dec(2000) = +21 12 33.8 (+/- 0".5); this is within 2" of the Chandra source # 10 reported to be inside the IPN error box (GCN 1741). Such object is visible in the blue and red DSS-2 charts as a very blue source that does not seem to be related to the GRB 021201. Further observations are planned." This message can be quoted.