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GCN Circular 22543

Subject
GRB 180325A: Global MASTER-Net OT prompt observations
Date
2018-03-25T15:05:51Z (7 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
V. Lipunov, E.Gorbovskoy, N.Tyurina, V.Kornilov, D.Zimnukhov, V.Vladimirov, 
A.Krylov, I.Gorbunov, P.Balanutsa, A.Kuznetsov, V.Chazov, D. Kuvshinov
(Lomonosov Moscow State University, SAI),

R.Podesta, C.Lopez, F. Podesta
(Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (OAFA),National University of San 
Juan, Argentina),

H. Levato, C. Saffe
(Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas,de la Tierra y del Espacio (ICATE), 
San Juan, Argentina),

R. Rebolo, M. Serra-Ricart, G.Israelyan
(The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias),

D.Buckley, S. Potter
(South African Astronomical Observatory),

O.Gres,  N.M.Budnev
(Irkutsk State University),

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

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

MASTER-OAFA and MASTER-IAC automatically pointed to GRB 180314A (Eleonora 
Troja et al. GCN 22532) with optical transient detection by MASTER 
auto-detection system.
We confirm Swift, LT, NOT, REM,  RATIR, SLKT, D50  GROND OT (GCN 22532, 
22534, 22535, 22536, 22537, 22538, 22541) but observed before.


MASTER-OAFA  robotic telescope (MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru)
located in OAFA (Argentina,http://oafa.master.sai.msu.ru:49001/) was 
pointed to the  GRB180325.08 38 sec after 
trigger time at 2018-03-25 01:53:40 UT. On our second
(20s exposure)  set robot automaticaly  found 1 optical transient within 
SWIFT error-box (ra=157.429 dec=24.4389 r=0.05) brighter then 16.7 .


  T-Ttrig  Date      Time       Expt.        Ra              Dec        Mag
-------|-------------------|-------|-----------------|---------------|-------
    88   2018-03-25 01:54:31    20    ( 10h 29m 42.7s , +24d 27m 49.3s)  16

The 5-sigma upper limit has been about 17.3mag

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The observations made on zenit distance = 58 degrees, galaxy latitude b =
59 degree. The moon (55 % bright part) is 25 degrees above the horizon. 
The distance between  moon and  object is 53
The sun  altitude  is -40.3 degree.
The object can be observed till 2018-03-25 07:53:41 UT.




MASTER-IAC  robotic telescope (MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru) 
located in IAC (Tenerife, Tejde Observatory) was pointed to the 
GRB180325.08 63 sec after trigger time 
at 2018-03-25 01:54:09 UT. On our second 
(20s exposure)  set robot automaticaly  found 1 optical transient within 
SWIFT error-box (ra=157.429 dec=24.4386 r=0.05) brighter then 17.0.


  T-Ttrig     Date   Time       Expt.        Ra                Dec         Mag
-------|-------------------|-------|-----------------|-----------------|-------
   119   2018-03-25 01:55:01    20     ( 10h 29m 42.6s , +24d 27m 48.3s)  16.50

The 5-sigma upper limit has been about 17.5 mag
The message may be cited.


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The observations made on zenit distance = 34 degrees, galaxy latitude b = 
59 degree.
The moon (55 % bright part) is  6 degrees above the horizon. The distance 
between  moon and  object is 53
The sun  altitude  is -58.3 degree.
The object can be observed till 2018-03-25 06:24:39 with good limit.


This message can be cited.
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