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GCN Circular 3338

Subject
GRB050502B: I band source in XRT error circle
Date
2005-05-03T00:04:58Z (20 years ago)
From
Brian Schmidt at RSAA, ANU (MSSSO) <brian@mso.anu.edu.au>
Joshua Rich, Brian Schmidt (Australian National University) and Jessie
Christiansen (UNSW)  report on behalf of a larger collaboration:

Images taken with ANU 1m telescope show a  source within the
SWIFT XRT error circle (Pagani et al., GCN 3333) at I=19.5 located at
RA=09:30:10.024 DEC=+16:59:48.07  J2000. This object does not vary by
more than +/- 0.1 mag from 2 May 2005 UT 9:58 through to UT 11:05. The 
object is not
detected in V to V>21. The object is 4.01+/-0.1 mag fainter than the 
star located at
RA=09:30:12.616 DEC=+17:00:05.55 in I.

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