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GCN Circular 15146

Subject
GRB 130831A : Xinglong 60cm optical observation
Date
2013-08-31T19:39:25Z (11 years ago)
From
L.P. Xin at NAOC <xlp@bao.ac.cn>
L. P. Xin,   X. H. Han, Y. L. Qiu,  J. Y. Wei,  J. Wang,  
J. S. Deng and C. Wu on behalf of EAFON report:

We began to observe GRB 130831A (Hagen et al. GCN 15139)  
with Xinglong 60cm telescope at  15:42:00 (UT), 
about 2.7 hours after the burst.  
A series of white and R-band images were obtained. 

The OT reported by (Hagen et al. GCN 15139, Guidorzi et al. GCN 15140, 
Xu et al. GCN 15142;  Yoshii et al. GCN 15143, Cucchiara  et al. GCN 15144) 
was detected in all images.  The brightness of this OT was about R=16.6 mag 
at  2.7 hours  after the burst,  calibrated by USNO B1.0 R2 mag.

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