GCN Circular 16176
Subject
GRB 140423A: MITSuME Akeno upper limits
Date
2014-04-28T12:03:53Z (10 years ago)
From
Taketoshi Yoshii at Tokyo Tech <yoshii.t.ac@m.titech.ac.jp>
Y. Ono, Y. Tachibana, Y. Saito, H. Ohuchi, T. Yoshii,
S. Kurita, T. Fujiwara, Y. Yatsu, and N. Kawai (Tokyo Tech)
report on behalf of the MITSuME collaboration:
We performed the follow-up observation for optical afterglow of GRB140423A(E.Sonbas et al., GCN Circular #16142, Elenin et al.,GCN Circular #16143 etc.) with the optical three color (g, Rc, and Ic) CCD cameras attached to the MITSuME 50 cm
telescope of Akeno Observatory, Yamanashi, Japan.
The observation started on 2014-04-24 14:10:46 UT (31.1h after the burst).
We did not find the optical source on the position of GRB140423A.
The measured magnitudes were listed below.
T0+[sec] MID-UT T-EXP[sec] g' Rc Ic
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44700 14-04-24 15:42:02 9600 >21.3 >21.2 >20.6
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T0+ : Elapsed time after the burst
T-EXP: Total Exposure time
We used GSC2.3 catalog for flux calibration.