GCN Circular 17456
Subject
GRB 150212A: MASTER optical observations
Date
2015-02-12T13:22:42Z (10 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
K.Ivanov, S.Yazev, N.M.Budnev, O.Gres, O.Chuvalaev, V.A.Poleshchuk
Irkutsk State University
E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, M.Pruzhinskaya, V.Kornilov, D.Kuvshinov,
N.Tyurina, N.Shatskiy, P.Balanutsa, D.Zimnukhov, A.Kuznetsov, V.V.Chazov,
D.Denisenko, A.Sankovich
Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University
V.Yurkov, Yu.Sergienko, D.Varda, E.Sinyakov
Blagoveschensk Educational State University, Blagoveschensk
A. Tlatov, A.V. Parhomenko, D. Dormidontov, V.Sennik
Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory
V.Krushinsky, I.Zalozhnih, A. Popov
Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Kourovka
D.Buckley, S. Potter, A.Kniazev, M.Kotze
South African Astronomical Observatory
Hugo Levato and Carlos Saffe
Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio (ICATE)
Claudio Mallamaci, Carlos Lopez and Federico Podest
Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (OAFA)
MASTER II robotic telescope (MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru)
located in Tunka was pointed to the GRB150212A (Page et. al. GCN 17449)
32 sec after notice time and 47 sec after trigger time at 2015-02-12
10:58:06 UT in two polarization. Unfortunately we were unable to obtain
satisfactory data on the first images due to clouds and high zenith
distance (z~75 d).
In the process of further observations we do not see the optical transient
and obtained the following upper limits:
T_start T-Tmid Expt. Mlimit
11:08:50 761 140 11.5
11:11:52 958 170 11.5
11:15:26 1177 180 12.5
11:26:34 1845 180 12.6
11:32:12 2183 180 15.0
11:32:12 3447 1800 16.7
11:35:58 2641 540 16.1
So weak upper limits associated with the observation through clouds and
large zenith distance of the object.