GCN Circular 3018
Subject
short/hard GRB 050202, optical observations
Date
2005-02-09T19:00:19Z (19 years ago)
From
Alberto Castro-Tirado at Inst.de Astro. de Andalucia <ajct@iaa.es>
A.J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC, Granada),
I. Bond (Massey Univ., Auckland),
P. Kilmartin (Univ. of Canterbury),
A. de Ugarte Postigo, J. Gorosabel,
M. Jel�nek (IAA-CSIC), and Ph. Yock
(Univ. of Auckland) report:
"Following the detection by SWIFT of the
short/soft GRB 050202 (Tueller et al. GCN
Circ. 3005) we imaged the error box with
the 0.6 m telescope at Mt. John University
Observatory. We obtained 3 x 300s images
with the MOA camera (+ wide R-band filter)
starting on 2.674 Feb (i.e. 12.6 hr after
the event). Observations were performed
at high airmass, prior to the sunrise.
Comparison of the stacked image with the
DSS-2 plates revealed no variable source
to about R = 20."