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GCN Circular 16821

Subject
GRB 140916A: FTS observations
Date
2014-09-16T16:06:06Z (11 years ago)
From
Simone Dichiara at Ferrara U/Italy <dichiara@fe.infn.it>
S. Dichiara, C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), J. Japelj (U. Ljubljana)
on behalf of a large collaboration report:

The 2-m Faulkes Telescope South in Siding Spring
(Australia) began observing Swift GRB 140916A (Racusin et al.
GCN Circ 16819) on September 16 at 11:52:12 UT, i.e.
~1.14 hours after the BAT trigger, with the r' and i' filters.

Within the enhanced XRT error circle (Evans et al. GCN Circ. 16820)
we find no optical counterpart to the following limiting magnitude:

Mid time from  Total Exp   Filter    Magnitude
trigger (hr)   (s)
-------------------------------------------------
1.26          60x7       r'        > 20.4
1.44          60x5       i'        > 18.7
-------------------------------------------------

Magnitudes are calibrated against nearby USNO-B1 stars.
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