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GCN Circular 29056

Subject
GRB 201214B: MITSuME Akeno optical upper limits
Date
2020-12-16T13:52:03Z (4 years ago)
From
Noriatsu Nakamura at Tokyo Inst. of Tech. <nnakamura@hp.phys.titech.ac.jp>
N. Nakamura,  R. Hosokawa, K. L. Murata, R. Adachi, M. Niwano, F.
Ogawa, N. Ito, S. Ogata, H. Takamatsu, H. Hara, Y. Yatsu, and N. Kawai
(TokyoTech) report on behalf of the MITSuME collaboration:

We observed the field of GRB 201214B (The Fermi GBM team,  GCN #29039,
P. Evans et al., GCN #29043, V. Lipunov et al., GCN #29044, D. Palmer
et al., GCN #29045, B. Sbarufatti et al., GCN #29052 ) with the
optical three color (g', Rc, and Ic) CCD cameras attached to the
MITSuME 50 cm telescope of Akeno Observatory, Yamanashi, Japan. The
observation with a series of 60 sec exposures started at 2020-12-15
18:51:41 UT(28.8 hour after trigger). We did not find any new point
sources within the enhanced Swift BAT circle (D. Palmer et al., GCN
#29045) in all three bands.
We obtained the 5-sigma limits of the stacked images as follows
T0+[hour] MID-UT T-EXP[sec] 5-sigma limits
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28.8 18:51:41 10380 g'>20.9,Rc>21.0,Ic>20.3
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T0+ : Elapsed time after the burst
T-EXP: Total Exposure time
We used the PS1 catalog for flux calibration.
The magnitudes are expressed in the AB system.
The images were processed in real-time through the MITSuME GPU
reduction pipeline (Niwano et al.,
https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psaa091,
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11486; https://github.com/MNiwano/Eclaire).
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