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GCN Circular 10015

Subject
GRB 090530A: Skynet/DSO Detections
Date
2009-10-11T21:25:05Z (15 years ago)
From
Aaron LaCluyze at U.North Carolina <lacluyze@physics.unc.edu>
A. Smith, A. LaCluyze, D. Reichart, D. Caton, L. Hawkins, J. Haislip, K. 
Ivarsen, A. Foster, J. Moore, A. Oza, M. Schubel, J. Styblova, A. Trotter, J. 
A. Crain, and M. Nysewander report:

Skynet observed the Swift/BAT localization of GRB 090530A (Cannizzo et al., GCN 
9438) with the 14" Dark Sky Observatory telescope in North Carolina beginning 
61.8 minutes after the trigger in RI.

We detect the afterglow (Cannizzo et al., GCN 9438).  Stacking only images that 
increase the limiting magnitude yields:

mean                                                        1-sig.  1-sig.
time                                                        sys.    stat.
since                                            cal.       cal.    cal.
trig.  tel.    exp.     fil.  magnitude          stars*     unc.    unc.
(m)            (# x s)                                      (mag)   (mag)

88.8   DSO-14  20 x 80  I     19.26 +0.32 -0.25  7 SDSS 7   0.050   0.001
102.2  DSO-14  23 x 80  R     19.53 +0.16 -0.14  10 SDSS 7  0.022   0.001

* Transformed using Jester et al., 2005, ApJ, 130, 873.
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