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GCN Circular 19805

Subject
GRB 160816A: MASTER inspection
Date
2016-08-17T05:44:51Z (8 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
V. Lipunov, E. Gorbovskoy,  N.Tyurina, V.Kornilov,
P.Balanutsa, A.Kuznetsov, D.Kuvshinov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute

R. Rebolo, M. Serra, N. Lodieu, G. Israelian
The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias

K.Ivanov, O.Gres, N.M.Budnev, S.Yazev,
Irkutsk State University

D.Buckley, S. Potter, A.Kniazev, M.Kotze
South African Astronomical Observatory

A. Tlatov, V.Senik, D. Dormidontov, A.Parkhomenko
Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory

V.Yurkov, Yu.Sergienko, A.Gabovich
Blagoveschensk Educational State University, Blagoveschensk

Hugo Levato, Carlos Saffe
Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio (ICATE)

R.Podesta, C.Mallamaci, C.Lopez, F. Podesta
Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (OAFA)

MASTER-IAC robotic telescope (MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru) 
located in Teide observatory was pointed to the Fermi LAT
GRB160816A  924 sec after notice time at 2016-08-16 22:57:12 UT 
(NOTICE_DATE:Tue 16  Aug 16 22:42:36 UT)  and 19665 sec after the trigger 
time(the delay in 15min was from the inspection of previous FermiGBM 
alert and late notice time).

  On our first  180s exposures we haven`t found optical transient  within
  LAT error-box (RA, Dec = 322.45, 37.16 (J2000) r=0.13).

There is a disc galaxy (unknown in NED) inside LAT error-box at the 
position 21h 29m 23.16s +37d 05m 54.9s - possible host galaxy for GRB.

The 5-sigma upper limit has been about 19.7 mag
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