GCN Circular 27702
Subject
GRB 200509A: Zadko observatory - Gingin optical upper limits
Date
2020-05-09T14:04:56Z (4 years ago)
From
Bruce Gendre at UVI <bruce.gendre@gmail.com>
B. Gendre, E. Moore, D. Coward, J.A. Moore (OzGrav-UWA),
A. Klotz (IRAP-CNRS-OMP) report:
We imaged the field of GRB 200509A detected by Swift
(trigger 970886, GCN 27701, Troja et al. 2020) with the Zadko robotic
telescope (D=100cm) located at the Zadko Observatory - Gingin, Australia.
The observations started about 6 hours after the GRB trigger. The
elevation of the field was at 41 degrees above horizon at the start of
the observation and decreasing, and weather conditions were good.
Inside the error box of the XRT afterglow, we did not detect any object
at 2020-05-09T13:00:00, down to a R magnitude of 18.2. No further
observations are planned.
Magnitudes were estimated with the nearby USNO-B1 stars
and are not corrected for galactic dust extinction.
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