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GCN Circular 14454

Subject
GRB 130427A: MITSuME Akeno Optical observation(T0+8000s~)
Date
2013-04-27T11:19:18Z (11 years ago)
From
Yoichi Yatsu at Tokyo Tech. <yatsu@hp.phys.titech.ac.jp>
Y. Yatsu, Y. Yano,  R. Usui, Y. Tachibana, K. Ito, T. Yoshii,
S. Kurita, Y. Saito, and N. Kawai (Tokyo Tech)
report on behalf of the MITSuME collaboration:

We observed GRB 130427A (Maselli et al., GCNC 14448) with an
optical tri-color (g, Rc, and Ic)  camera attached to the MITSuME
50 cm telescope of Akeno Observatory, Yamanashi, Japan.

The observation started on 2013-04-27 10:06:09.60 UT (8293 sec after the
trigger).
And we found the optical counterpart reported in the twilight sky.
The measured magnitudes were listed below.

MID-MJD  T-EXP[sec]         g'                 Rc                Ic
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 56409.4231929  360  15.66+/-0.10  15.03+/-0.07  14.71+/-0.09
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T-EXP: Total Exposure time [sec]
(The photon flux were calibrated against GSC2.3 catalog.)
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