GCN Circular 34514
Subject
GRB 20230818A: GIT optical upper limit
Date
2023-08-21T16:35:40Z (2 years ago)
From
Varun Bhalerao at IIT Bombay <varunb@iitb.ac.in>
Via
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R. Kumar (IITB), A. Salgundi (IITB), V. Swain (IITB), H. Kumar (IITB), V. Bhalerao (IITB), G.C. Anupama (IIA), S. Barway (IIA) and K. Angail (IAO) report on behalf of the GIT team:
We observed the field of GRB230818A (Lipunov et al., GCN 34476; Fermi GBM team, GCN 34478; Tohuvavohu et al., GCN 34479; Gompertz et al., GCN 34480; Moskvitin et al., GCN 34483; Malesani et al., GCN 34485; Siegel et al., GCN 34486; Pankov et al., GCN 34487; Quadri et al., GCN 34488; Pavoni et al., GCN 34490; Klose et al., GCN 34491; Pari et al., GCN 34492; Odeh et al., GCN 34493; Pichay et al., GCN 34498) with the 0.7m GROWTH-India Telescope (GIT). The observations started at 2023-08-19 15:32:24.081 UT, 0.67 days after the Fermi GBM trigger. We obtained 6 images of 300-sec exposures in the r' filter. We did not detect any new source in our stacked image around R.A.= 19h 03m 33.11s, DEC.=+40d 53m 48.5s. The obtained upper limits follow as:
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JD (mid) | T-T0 (hours) | Filter | Exposure (s) | Limiting Magnitude (AB)
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2460176.15764106 | 16.326 | r' | 6 x 300 | 21.35
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Our results are consistent with the upper limits reported by AKO (Odeh et al., GCN 34493) and the weak detection by SAO RAS Zeiss-1000 (Moskvitin et al., GCN 34495). The magnitudes are calibrated against PanSTARRS DR1 (Chambers et al., 2016) and not corrected for Galactic extinction.
The GROWTH India Telescope (GIT, Kumar et al. 2022) is a 70-cm telescope with a 0.7-degree field of view, set up by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) with funding from DST-SERB and IUSSTF. It is located at the Indian Astronomical Observatory (Hanle), operated by IIA. We acknowledge funding by the IITB alumni batch of 1994, which partially supports the operations of the telescope. Telescope technical details are available at https://sites.google.com/view/growthindia/.