TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  34320
SUBJECT: GRB 230802A: BOOTES-5/JGT optical upper limit
DATE:    23/08/02 21:00:30 GMT
FROM:    Youdong HU at IAA-CSIC <huyoudong072@hotmail.com>

E. Fernandez-Garcia, Y.-D. Hu, A. J. Castro-Tirado, I. Perez-Garcia, M.D. Caballero-Garcia, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, S. Guziy (IAA-CSIC), D. Hiriart and W. H. Lee (UNAM), C. J. Perez del Pulgar (UMA) and I. M. Carrasco-Garcia (SMA) and I. H. Park (SKKU), on behalf of a larger collaboration, report:

Following the detection of GRB 230802A by Swift (Klingler et al. GCNC 34313), the BOOTES-5/JGT 0.6m robotic telescope at Observatorio Astronomico Nacional in San Pedro Martir (Mexico) automatically observed the GRB location starting on Aug. 02, 11:41 UT (~ 4.9 h after trigger). No new optical source is detected on the co-added image (13 x 60 s, clear filter) within the enhanced Swift/XRT error region (Goad et al. GCNC 34317) down to 19.7 mag, which is consistent with the limit reported by UVOT (Klingler et al. GCNC 34313).

We thank the staff at Observatorio Astronomico Nacional in San Pedro Martir for their excellent support.