GCN Circular 1435
Subject
AXP 1E2259+586 optical observations
Date
2002-06-20T21:51:51Z (22 years ago)
From
Alberto Castro-Tirado at Inst.de Astro. de Andalucia <ajct@iaa.es>
AXP 1E2259+586 optical observations
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A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC)
R. Rebolo and J. I. Gonzalez-Hernandez (IAC)
N. O'Mahony (ING) and M. A. Alcaide (Univ. de Valencia)
report:
"Following the detection of SGR-like behaviour from the
anomalous x-ray pulsar 1E 2259+586 by RXTE (GCN#1432),
we have observed the field with the auxiliary port camera
at the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope at La Palma on
June 20, 02:53-03:35 UT. We do not find optical emission
within the Chandra 0.6" radius error circle (Hulleman et
al. 2001, ApJ 563, L49) down to limiting magnitudes of
R = 24.8 and I = 20.0."