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GCN Circular 11435

Subject
GRB101030A
Date
2010-12-02T21:20:39Z (13 years ago)
From
Valentyna Golovnya at Main Astro Obs,Kyiv <golov_v@ukr.ne>
GRB 101030A, the review of the sky area in plate archives
V.V. Golovnya, L.K. Pakuliak (Main Astro Obs, Kyiv)
report:

We have undertaken the review of the sky area of GRB 101030A (Evans et
al., GCN 11387) on astronegatives, collected in Ukrainian NAS Main
astronomical observatory plate archive (1976-1996). All the plates with 
the possible object appearance are digitized using Microtek ScanMaker
9800XL TMA flatbed scanner and have been placed into Golosiiv Plate 
Archive database DBGPA with open access to them.

The list of plates is given in the table:
YYYYMMDD   UT       Plates/Films  Exp.  LimMag            
19860501  19:23:22  GUA040C002903 30.0  12.25
19860501  19:23:27  GUA040D002904 11.9  13.15
19860503  00:29:45  QUI021B000206 10.1  12.15
19860503  00:48:10  QUI021B000208 10.1  12.15

Plates/Films:  
GUA040C �the plates archive identifier of DWA (D/F=400/2000,M=103"/mm)
GUA040D   of the Ukrainian NAS Main astronomical observatory in Kyiv
          (Marsden's number - 83) the plate number [1].
QUI021B -the films archive identifier of AFU-75 (D/F=210/740,M=280"/mm) 
          of the Quito Astro. Obs. in Ecuador
         (Marsden's number - 781) the plate number [1].
Exp.  -   Duration of the maximum exposures (minutes).
LimMag -  Limited mag, derived in the 50 minutes area around the 
          location given in Evans et al., GCN 11387:
          RA (J2000): 11h 05m 31.68s, Dec (J2000): -16d 22' 41.2".

The preview images of 4 areas together with the 8 min.of arc area from 
SkyMap can be found in http://gua.db.ukr-vo.org/img/grb/101030A/index.
The images with full resolution are available via e-mail on demand.

References:
1.L.Pakuliak DATABASE of GOLOSIIV PLATE ARCHIVE (DBGPA V2.0),
http://gua.db.ukr-vo.org/
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