GCN Circular 1080
Subject
GRB 010629 Optical Observations
Date
2001-07-02T13:38:31Z (24 years ago)
From
Jens Hjorth at U.Copenhagen <jens@astro.ku.dk>
M. I. Andersen (U. of Oulu),
B. L. Jensen, J. Hjorth, H. Pedersen (U. of Copenhagen),
H. Kjeldsen, (U. of Aarhus),
J. Gorosabel (DSRI, Copenhagen), J. U. Fynbo (ESO) report:
We have obtained optical follow-up observations of the central part
of the HETE-2/IPN error box of GRB 010629 (cf. GCN ##1075,1076)
starting 11h 41m after the burst trigger. Using DFOSC on the
1.54-m Danish telescope, La Silla, covering a 13.7' by 13.7'
field of view, the following images were acquired:
2001 June 29 00:02 - 00:52 UT Gunn I ; 3x900s seeing = 1.50"
2001 June 30 02:50 - 03:57 UT Gunn I ; 4x900s seeing = 0.75"
centered on
RA(J2000) = 16 32 27.5, Dec(J2000) = -18 43 32
Our data analysis does not reveal any obvious afterglow candidate in
this field, to an estimated limiting magnitude of 20.5. As noted by
Henden (GCN #1077) this field has a high Galactic extinction
(A_I=1.18 according to Schlegel et al. 1998), making the search for
an afterglow intrinsically less deep. The proposed high proper motion
star mentioned by Henden is not covered by our images, while the astroid
mentioned by Halpern & Mirabal (GCN #1079) is seen in the images from
June 30th.