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GCN Circular 3259

Subject
GRB 050412: PROMPT VRcIc Observations
Date
2005-04-13T19:53:06Z (19 years ago)
From
Melissa Nysewander at UNC,Chapel Hill <mnysewan@physics.unc.edu>
M. Nysewander, D. Reichart, J. A. Crain report on behalf of the UNC team of
the FUN GRB Collaboration:

We observed the BAT localization of GRB 050412 (Cummings et al., GCN 3237)
with PROMPT beginning 5m 50s after the burst.

We do not detect a source within the XRT localization (Tamburelli et al.,
GCN 3241; Mangano et al. GCN 3253) nor the source identified by Jensen et
al. (GCN 3243).

3-sigma limiting magnitudes are based on 10 USNO-B1.0 stars for Rc and Ic
observations, and 10 NOMAD stars for V observations:

Start Time	Integration	Filter	Limiting	Telescope
Since GRB	Time			Magnitude

5m 50s          10 x 10s        Rc      18.5		PROMPT-5
8m 48s          10 x 10s        Ic      18.0		PROMPT-5
                + 1 x 20s
14m 30s         1 x 30s         Rc      17.9		PROMPT-5
15m 46s         3 x 30s         V       20.0		PROMPT-5
                + 10 x 60s
39m 44s         10 x 60s        Rc      20.3		PROMPT-5
50m 42s         10 x 60s        Ic      18.9		PROMPT-5
61m 46s         10 x 60s        V       19.2		PROMPT-5
73m 22s         10 x 60s        Rc      20.0		PROMPT-5
84m 29s         10 x 60s        Ic      18.3		PROMPT-5
95m 24s         30 x 60s        Rc      17.6		PROMPT-5

PROMPT is still being built and commissioned.
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