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GCN Circular 28453

Subject
IceCube-200916A: AbAO observations of optical candidates ZTF20acaapwk/AT2020tno, ZTF20acaapwo/AT2020tnp
Date
2020-09-18T18:18:13Z (5 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
S. Belkin (IKI), A. Pozanenko (IKI), R. Ya. Inasaridze (AbAO), V. R. 
Ayvazian (AbAO),  G. V.  Kapanadze (AbAO),   A. Volnova (IKI), I. 
Molotov (KIAM)  report on behalf of IKI-GRB-FuN:

We observed the two candidate counterparts from ZTF (Reusch et al., GCN 
28441) of the neutrino event IceCube-200916A (Blaufuss et. al, GCN 
28433) with  AS-32 telescope of Abastumani observatory in R-filter.
In stacked images we cannot resolve point like sources of the 
candidates. Photometry of candidates include their (presumably) 
underlying host galaxies and presented below.


IAU Name, Date,      UT start, MJD,   Exp.,  Filter, OT, Err., UL, Ref.
                     (mid, days)

AT2020tno 2020-09-18 01:00:49 59110.04918 20*60 R  16.88 0.02 20.3 (1)
AT2020tnp 2020-09-18 01:39:12 59110.07306 12*60 R  19.62 0.22 20.0 (2)

The photometry is based on nearby USNO-B1.0 stars
Ref.(1)
USNO-B1.0_id R2
1049-0143702 14.84
1048-0142480 14.23
Ref.(2)
USNO-B1.0_id R2
1044-0132913 15.48
1044-0132991 15.73

In the case of AT2020tno the brightness is not distinguished from 
magnitude of underlying object in catalogues.
The brightens of AT2020tnp  is might be somewhat brighter than reported 
by ZTF (r=20.41 +/- 0.14; Reusch et al., GCN 28441) and apparently 
brighter than reported in catalogues.
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