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GCN Circular 15035

Subject
GRB 130725A - Faulkes Telescope South Observations
Date
2013-07-26T08:43:47Z (11 years ago)
From
Andrea Melandri at Liverpool John Moores U <axm@astro.livjm.ac.uk>
F.J. Virgili (LJMU), C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara),  J. Japelj, D. Kopac  
(U. Ljubljana), A. Melandri (INAF-OAB) report:

"The 2-m Faulkes Telescope South robotically followed up GRB 130725A  
(SWIFT trigger 563980; Zhang et al. GCN 15028) beginning 111.9 min  
after the GRB trigger time. No optical counterpart is detected within  
the XRT error circle to the following conservative limits:

Midtime from GRB    Exposure    Filter    Magnitude
      (min)                        (s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
      112.2                  3x10s           r'         > 18.9
      117.1                  1x10s           i'         > 17
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Values are calibrated against nearby SDSS field stars.
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