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GCN Circular 13914

Subject
GRB 121028A: Faulkes Telescope North observations
Date
2012-10-28T08:12:16Z (12 years ago)
From
Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy <guidorzi@fe.infn.it>
C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), A. Gomboc (U. Ljubljana),
on behalf of a large collaboration report:

The 2-m Faulkes Telescope North automatically began observing
GRB 121028A (Starling et al. GCN Circ. 13913) on October 28 2012,
05:07:12 UT corresponding to 161 seconds post burst trigger
with BVRi' filters. Within the XRT error circle we don't see
any uncatalogued object down to the following limits:

Mid time from       Exposure        Filter       Limit
GRB (sec)           (s)
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198                3x10              R            > 19
535                 10               i'           > 18
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Magnitudes are calibrated against nearby USNOB1 stars.
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