GCN Circular 29613
Subject
GRB 210307A: LCO Optical Upper Limits
Date
2021-03-07T13:44:16Z (3 years ago)
From
Robert Strausbaugh at U. of the Virgin Islands <robert.strausbaugh@uvi.edu>
R. Strausbaugh (U. of the Virgin Islands), A. Cucchiara (U. of the Virgin Islands/College of Marin) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
We observed Swift GRB 210307A (Ambrosi et al., GCN 29610) with the LCO 1-m Sinistro instrument at the Sutherland Observatory, South Africa site, on March 7, from 09:28 to 09:59 UT (corresponding to 0.60 to 1.18 hours from the GRB trigger time) with the Bessel R and I filters.
We performed a series of 4x240s exposures in R and I. We do not detect an uncatalogued optical source in either band in single frames, or in stacked images at a location consistent the initial XRT detection (Ambrosi et al., GCN 29610). Using the USNO-B.1 catalog as reference, we calculate the following upper limits:
R > 20.72
I > 20.66
These magnitudes are not corrected for galactic extinction.
R.S. is funded by NSF AST grant #1831682