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GCN Circular 2784

Subject
SUBJECT: GRB 041006 : Optical follow-up observation at TAROT
Date
2004-10-08T14:59:37Z (20 years ago)
From
Jean-Luc Atteia at Lab d Astrophys.,OMP,Toulouse <atteia@ast.obs-mip.fr>
Klotz, A., Boer M., G. Stratta, and Atteia J-L. report:

TAROT observed the HETE alert #3570
on 2004 Oct. 06, 19:55 UT (middle time).
The telescope took a series of 12 x 100-s unfiltered images
of the afterglow reported by
G. Da Costa et al. (GCN 2765)

We co-added frames to obtain a single image.
Comparing to the USNO-1B catalog and DSS
image, we are able to detect all stars
brighter than R=19.4 but the afterglow
is not visible.

The candidate proposed by Da Costa et al. (GCN 2765)
is not detected at the 3 sigma level. We conclude that the
afterglow had a magnitude R > 19.4.

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[GCN OPS (08oct04): Due to a disk-full error, this Circular
was issued with the wrong serial number.  It has been changed 
from 2806 to 2784.]
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