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GCN Circular 32809

Subject
GRB221009A: LBT optical imaging
Date
2022-10-20T15:24:03Z (2 years ago)
From
Andrea Rossi at INAF <andrea.rossi@inaf.it>
A. Rossi, E. Maiorano (INAF-OAS), D. B. Malesani (Radboud Univ. and 
DAWN/NBI)on behalf of the CIBO collaboration, F. Cusano (INAF-OAS),��and 
D. Paris (INAF-OA Roma), report:

We observed the field of GRB 221009A (Dichiara et al., GCN 32632; Kennea 
& Williams, GCN 32635; Veres et al.,��GCN 32636; Bissaldi et al., GCN 
32637; Svinkin et al., GCN 32641; Ursi et al., GCN Circ. 32650) 
simultaneously in the blue and red arms with the g'+r' and g'+i'��bands 
with the MODS instrument mounted on LBT (Mt Graham, AZ, USA). We 
observed for 22 min per arm at the midtime 03:11 UT on 2022-10-18, 8.58 
days after the burst trigger. Observations were performed under modest 
weather conditions with an average seeing of ~1" but high humidity and 
passing cirrus.

We clearly detect the afterglow and we preliminary measure

r=21.63+-0.02 (AB system),

calibrated against Pan-STARRS field stars.

We acknowledge the excellent support from the LBTO and LBT-INAF staff, 
particularly A. Becker and D. G. Huerta in obtaining these observations.
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