GCN Circular 27853
Subject
GRB 200529A: BOOTES-2/TELMA early optical upper limit
Date
2020-05-29T10:54:37Z (5 years ago)
From
Youdong HU at IAA-CSIC <youdong@iaa.es>
Y.-D. Hu, E. Fernandez-Garcia, A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC), C. Perez
del Pulgar, A. Castellon, I. Carrasco (Univ. de Malaga), R.
Fernandez-Munoz (IHSM/UMA-CSIC), M.D. Caballero-Garcia and M. Jelinek
(ASU-CAS), on behalf of a larger collaboration, report:
The 60cm BOOTES-2/TELMA robotic telescope at IHSM La Mayora (UMA-CSIC)
in Algarrobo Costa (Malaga, Spain) automatically responded to GRB
200529A as detected by Swift (D'Elia et al GCNC 27845). No new source is
seen in the initial 10s exposure gathered at 00:58:28 UT(~ 113 s after
the burst onset) down to a 18.0 limiting magnitude. Further images (20 x
10s) were combined to produce a deeper image down to 18.8 mag limit at
median time of 10.5 min post burst. No early-time bright optical
emission is detected at the NOT (Malesani et al. GCNC 27846) and KAIT
(Zheng et al. GCNC 27847) reported optical afterglow.
We thank the staff at La Mayora for its excellent support.