GCN Circular 13954
Subject
GRB 121108A: MASTER early prompt optical limit
Date
2012-11-08T19:33:45Z (12 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <gcncirc@observ.inetcomm.ru>
E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, D.Kuvshinov, A.Belinski, N.Tyurina,
N.Shatskiy, P.Balanutsa, D.Zimnukhov, A.Kuznetsov, V.V.Chazov,
D.Denisenko, 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.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
V.Krushinski, I.Zalozhnih, A. Popov
Ural Federal University, Kourovka
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 Kislovodsk was pointed to the GRB121108A (Ukwatta et. al.
GCN13952) 36 sec after notice time and 54 sec after GRB time at
2012-11-08 17:48:33.174 UT in two polarizations. On our first (10s
exposure) set we haven`t found optical transient within SWIFT error-box.
The 5-sigma upper limit has been about 15.8 mag
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