GCN Circular 24567
Subject
GRB 190515B: BOOTES-4/MET and 2.2m CAHA optical limits
Date
2019-05-17T03:26:28Z (6 years ago)
From
Alberto J. Castro-Tirado at IAA-CSIC <ajct@iaa.es>
Y.-D. Hu, X.-Y. Li, E. Fernandez-Garcia, A. Ayala, A. J. Castro-Tirado
(IAA-CSIC), C. Perez del Pulgar, A. Castellon, I. Carrasco (Univ. de
Malaga), S. Guziy (Univ. of Nikolaev), D. Xiong, Y. Fan, X. Zhao, J.
Bai, C. Wang, Y. Xin, J. Mao (Yunnan Nacional Astronomical Observatory),
A. Fernandez and I. Hermelo (CAHA), on behalf of a larger
collaboration, report:
Following the detection of GRB 190515B by Swift (Moss et al. GCNC
24553), the 0.6m BOOTES-4/MET robotic telescope at Lijiang Astronomical
Observatory (China) automatically responded gathering 9 frames (g���
filter, 30s exposures) starting at 16:10:44UT (0.11 hr after trigger).
In addition, 23 frames at the 2.2m Calar Alto telescope equipped with
CAFOS (I-band, 120s exposures) were taken starting at 20:45:41 UT (4.69
h post burst). On the co-added images, no optical afterglow is found
down to 18.9 mag (g-band) or 22.1 (I-band) respectively at the enhaced
XRT position (Evans et al. GCNC 24554), in agreement with Belkin et al.
(GCNC 24556) and de Ugarte Postigo et al. (GCNC 24558). Particularly the
Calar Alto co-add I-band frame does not detect the marginal object
reported in GCNC 24556.
We thank the CAHA staff for excellent support.