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GCN Circular 27027

Subject
GRB 200205B: Chilescope optical observations
Date
2020-02-09T13:51:47Z (5 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
E. Mazaeva (IKI), A. Pozanenko (IKI), M. Krugov (AFIF),  A. Volnova 
(IKI), S. Belkin (IKI) report on behalf of IKI-FuN follow-up collaboration:

We observed  the Swift GRB 200205B (Evans et al., GCN 26993)  with 
Chilescope RC-1000 started on Feb. 7 (UT) 03:04:55 in r'-filter. We 
marginally detect optical afterglow (Lipunov et al., GCN 26991; Evans et 
al., GCN 26993;   Strausbaugh  et al., GCN 26995; Vielfaure et al., GCN 
26998; Malesani et al., GCN 27004; Simpson et al., GCN 27006).

Preliminary photometry is following.

Date       UT start MJD_mid     Filter Exp.   OT(AB) S/N UL
                     (mid, days)    (s)

2020-02-07 03:04:55 1.33613     r'     2*1200 22.2   2.0 22.0

The photometry is based on nearby stars from the SkyMapper catalog
SkyMapper_id    r
293365688    17.550
293359963    16.213
293359881    15.816
293365677    17.659
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