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GCN Circular 23348

Subject
FRB 181016: MASTER optical inspection of the Fast Radio Burst error box
Date
2018-10-19T14:42:30Z (6 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
V. Lipunov, E. Gorbovskoy, N.Tiurina, 
V.Kornilov, A.Kuznetsov, V.Chazov, I.  Gorbunov,
D.Zimnukhov, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa, V.Vladimirov, D. Vlasenko
Lomonosov Moscow State University,SAI MSU

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

D. Buckley,
South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)

R. Rebolo, M. Serra, N. Lodieu, G. Israelian, L. Suarez-Andres
The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC)

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

H.Levato,
Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio (ICATE)

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

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

MASTER-Kislovodsk robotic telescope (MASTER-Net: 
http://observ.pereplet.ru, Lipunov et al., 2010, Advances in Astronomy, 
vol. 2010, 30L) located in Russia (Lomonosov MSU, Kislovodsk Solar Station 
of Pulkovo observatory) was starting survey on the FRB 181016A (Farah et 
al. ATel #12124 )  2 days 46822 sec after trigger time at 2018-10-18 
17:17:18 UT.
We cover full error box.
No new OT was found.
The 5-sigma upper limit on our  images  is about 18.5 mag

The coverage map is available here


http://master.sai.msu.ru/static//FRB/db/FRB181016A/img/ligo_master_2018-10-19-08-58-37.eb.zoom.1.pngmlimit.png


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