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GCN Circular 14026

Subject
GRB 121201A: BOOTES-4 optical observations
Date
2012-12-01T15:07:39Z (12 years ago)
From
Sergey Guziy at IAA CSIC <gss@iaa.es>
S. Guziy (Mykolaiv Nat. Univ.), R. Sanchez-Ramirez (IAA-CSIC), L.
Monteagudo Narvion (IAC), O. Lara, M. Jelinek (IAA-CSIC), P. Kubanek (IP
AS CR), Y. Fan, X. Zhao, J. Bai, C. Wang, Y. Xin (Yunnan National
Astronomical Observatory), Chenzhou Cui (Beijing National Astronomical
Observatory), R. Cunniffe, A.J. Castro-Tirado, J.C. Tello and J. Gorosabel
(IAA-CSIC), on behalf of a larger collaboration, report:

We have observed the GRB 121201A optical afterglow (GCN 14025, Yershov et
al.) with the 0.6m BOOTES-4/MET robotic telescope at the Lijiang
Astronomical Observatory (China). The afterglow is clear detected in XRT
and UVOT position.

[GCN OPS NOTE(31dec12): As pointed out by E.Helder and confirmed by the author,
the Subject-line was changed from "121123A" to "121201A".]
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