GCN Circular 23281
Subject
GRB 180930A: KAIT Optical Upper Limit
Event
Date
2018-09-30T18:07:48Z (8 years ago)
From
Weikang Zheng at UC Berkeley <weikang@berkeley.edu>
WeiKang Zheng and Alexei V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley) report on
behalf of the KAIT GRB team:
The 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), located at
Lick Observatory, responded to Swift GRB 180930A (Tohuvavohu et al.,
GCN 23279) starting at 12:45:41 UT, 112 seconds after the burst
under dawn twilight condition. Observations were performed with an
automatic sequence in the clear (roughly R), V, and I filters,
and the exposure time was 20 s per image. We do not detect any
optical afterglow candidate within the enhanced XRT position error
circle (Evans et al., GCN 23280) neither in single image, nor in
the co-add images. The typical limiting magnitude of our single
clear image is about 18.5 mag calibrated to the Pan-STARRS1 catalog.