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GCN Circular 22128

Subject
GRB 171115A: MITSuME Akeno optical upper limits
Date
2017-11-16T12:32:45Z (7 years ago)
From
Katsuhiro L. Murata at Nagoya U <murata@u.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
K. Morita, R. Itoh, K. L. Murata, T. Yoshii, Y. Tachibana, S. Harita, T.
Ozawa, H. Mamiya, K. Shiraishi, Y. Yatsu, and N. Kawai (Tokyo Tech)
report on behalf of the MITSuME collaboration:

We searched for the optical counterpart of GRB 171115A (B. Sbarufatti et
al., GCN Circular #22124) 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 2017-11-16 08:54:06 UT. We did not find any new
point source within enhanced XRT circle (A.P. Beardmoreet al., GCN Circular
#22125) in all three bands.

We obtained following limits for the magnitudes.

T0+[hour]    MID-UT      T-EXP[sec]    g'       Rc        Ic
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
~14.05       09:14:00.87     2220     >19.6     >18.6     >18.1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

T0+ : Elapsed time after the burst
T-EXP: Total Exposure time
We used GSC2.3 catalog for flux calibration.
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