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GCN Circular 30087

Subject
GRB 210527A: MITSuME Akeno optical upper limits
Date
2021-05-28T05:47:33Z (3 years ago)
From
Ryohei Hosokawa at Tokyo Institute of Technology <hosokawa@hp.phys.titech.ac.jp>
Y. Imai, R. Hosokawa, K. L. Murata, M. Niwano, N. Ito, H. Takamatsu,
S. Sato, M. Takaku, R. Noto, R. Yamaguchi, Y. Yatsu, and N. Kawai
(TokyoTech) report on behalf of the MITSuME collaboration:

We observed the field of GRB 210527A (S. Laha et al. GCN Circular
#30081, J.P. Osborne et al. GCN Circular #30082, P.A. Evans et al. GCN
Circular #30083, Nat Butler et al. GCN Circular #30084, V. D'Elia et
al. GCN Circular #30085, V. Lipunov et al. GCN Circular #30086) with
the optical three color (g', Rc, and Ic) CCD cameras attached to the
MITSuME 50 cm telescope Akeno.
The observation with a series of 60 sec exposures started at 2021-05-27
10:23:37 UT (3.3 hours after the triggers). We stacked the images with
good conditions. We did not detect any sources within the enhanced XRT
error region (P.A. Evans et al. GCN Circular #30083) 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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3.3 2021-05-27 15:28 1980 g'>18.0, Rc>18.6, Ic>18.1
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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. 2021, PASJ,
Vol.73, Issue 1, Pages 4-24; https://github.com/MNiwano/Eclaire).
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