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GCN Circular 3480

Subject
GRB 050525A: BOOTES simultaneous optical observations
Date
2005-05-25T16:48:14Z (19 years ago)
From
Alberto Castro-Tirado at Inst.de Astro. de Andalucia <ajct@iaa.es>
A. de Ugarte Postigo, M. Jelinek, J. Gorosabel, S. Guziy  (IAA-CSIC 
Granada),
P. Kubanek, R. Hudec (ASU-CAS, Ondrejov), S. Vitek (FEL-CVUT Praha),
T. J. Soria, R. Fernandez (EELM-CSIC Malaga), J. Fabregat (Univ. de 
Valencia)
 and  A. J. Castro-Tirado(IAA-CSIC), report:

"The BOOTES-1 and BOOTES-2 very wide field cameras, located at INTA-
CEDEA (Huelva, Spain) and EELM-CSIC (Malaga, Spain) respectively, and
distant 200 km each other, observed the region of the sky containing the
SWIFT/BAT error box for GRB 050525 (Band et al. GCN 3466, Markwardt
et al. GCN 3467, Cummings et al. GCN 3469) as part of their routine
observing schedules.  30 s exposures started simultaneously at 00:03:00 UT
(7 s after the onset of the 10 s long burst), with the following frame 
starting
at 00:04:00 UT (i.e. covering the late part of the event). A limiting 
(unfiltered)
magnitude of 9.0 is derived for any prompt optical flash arising from this
particular GRB. Images are posted at:
http://www.iaa.es/~deugarte/GRBs/050525/GRB050525_wide.gif ".
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