GCN Circular 27304
Subject
GRB 200303A: GOTO observations upper limit
Date
2020-03-03T12:21:44Z (5 years ago)
From
Ben Gompertz at U of Warwick <b.gompertz@warwick.ac.uk>
Y.-L. Mong (1); K. Ackley (1); D. K. Galloway (1); D. Steeghs (2); V.
Dhillon (3); P. O'Brien (4); G. Ramsay (5); D. Pollacco (2); E. Thrane
(1); S. Poshyachinda (6); R. Kotak (7); L. Nuttall (8); E. Pall\'e (9);
K. Ulaczyk (2); J. Lyman (2); R. Cutter (2); A. Levan (2); T. Marsh (2);
R. West (2); E. Stanway (2); B. Gompertz (2); K. Wiersema (2); T.
Killestein (2); A. Casey (1); M. Brown (1); B. Muller (1); M. Dyer (3);
J. Mullaney (3); E. Daw (3); S. Littlefair (3); J. Maund (3); L.
Makrygianni (3); U. Burhanudin (3); R. Starling (4); R. Eyles (4); S.
Tooke (4); S. Aukkaravittayapun (6); U. Sawangwit (6); S. Awiphan (6);
D. Mkrtichian (6); P. Irawati (6); S. Mattila (7); T. Heikkil\"a (7); E.
Rol (1)
((1) Monash University, (2) Warwick University, (3) University of
Sheffield, (4) University of Leicester, (5) Armagh Observatory &
Planetarium, (6) National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand,
(7) University of Turku, (8) University of Portsmouth, (9) Instituto de
Astrofisica de Canarias)
report on behalf of the GOTO collaboration:
We carried out observations with the Gravitational-wave Optical
Transient Observer (GOTO), in response to GRB 2000303A (Cenko et al.
2020; GCN #27297; Fermi GBM; GCN #27294).
We made a series of 3 x 60 s exposures using our wide L-band filter
(400-700 nm) covering the Swift XRT position (Cenko et al. 2020; GCN
#27297), starting at 6.4 minutes after the Swift BAT trigger with
midtime 02:52:17 UT on 03 March 2020.
Using a difference imaging analysis with recent survey observations of
the same pointings as reference, we identify no viable afterglow
candidate. Our mean 5-sigma detection limit was g=19.6 mag based on PS1
catalogue calibrators.
GOTO is operated at the La Palma observing facilities of the University
of Warwick on behalf of a consortium including the University of
Warwick, Monash University, Armagh Observatory, the University of
Leicester, the University of Sheffield, the National Astronomical
Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT) and the Instituto de Astrofisica
de Canarias (IAC) (https://goto-observatory.org)