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GCN Circular 16911

Subject
GRB 141015A: ISON-NM early optical observations
Date
2014-10-15T17:27:15Z (10 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
L. Elenin (KIAM),  E. Mazaeva (IKI), A. Volnova (IKI), I. Molotov 
(KIAM), A. Pozanenko (IKI) report on behalf of larger GRB  follow-up 
collaboration:

We observed the field of the Swift   GRB 141015A (Troja et al., GCN 
16909) with 0.4-m telescope of ISON-NM observatory starting on Oct., 15 
(UT) 09:16:55, i.e. ~4 minutes after burst triger. We obtained 14 
unfiltered images of 120 s exposure. We do not detect any source within 
XRT error circle (Troja et al., GCN 16910):

UT start   t-T0         Exp.      Filter  UL (3sigma)
          (mid.,days)    (s)
09:16:55  0.0068        5*120    Clear   18.4
09:16:55  0.0131       14*120    Clear   19.0

The photometry is based on nearby USNO-B1.0 stars

USNO-B1.0      RA             DEC            R2
1083-0107546   087,552978    +18,360067     14,78
1083-0107529   087,547650    +18,355839     15,18
1083-0107484   087,534895    +18,341425     15,00
1083-0107360   087,503081    +18,336089     14,71
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