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GCN Circular 13072

Subject
GRB 120320A: MASTER optical observations
Date
2012-03-20T13:09:04Z (12 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <gcncirc@observ.inetcomm.ru>
V.Yurkov, Yu.Sergienko, D.Varda, E.Sinyakov
Blagoveschensk Educational State University, Blagoveschensk


K.Ivanov, S.Yazev, N.M.Budnev, O.Gres, O.Chuvalaev, V.A.Poleshchuk
Irkutsk State University

E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, D.Kuvshinov, A.Belinski, N.Tyurina, 
N.Shatskiy, P.Balanutsa, D.Zimnukhov, A.Kuznetsov,  V.V.Chazov, A.Kuznetsov, 
A.Sankovich
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University


A. Tlatov, A.V. Parhomenko, D. Dormidontov, V.Sennik
Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory

V.Krushinski, I.Zalozhnich,  A. Popov, A. Bourdanov, A. Punanova
Ural Federal University

Hugo Levato and Carlos Saffe
Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio (ICATE)

Claudio Mallamaci, Carlos Lopez and Federico Podest
Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (OAFA)

MASTER II  robotic telescope (MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru) 
located in Blagoveschensk was pointed to the  GRB120320A (Markwardt et 
al., GCN 13071) 32 sec s after notice time and 156 sec after GRB time
at 2012-03-20 11:58:51.633 UT. On our first (30s exposure) set we haven`t
found optical transient  within SWIFT BAT error-box (Markwardt et al., GCN 13071).
The 5-sigma upper limit has been about 15.4 mag .
The low limit is due to high zenit distance (8 degrees up to horizont).

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