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GCN Circular 35091

Subject
GRB 231115A: JinShan optical upper limits
Date
2023-11-18T02:05:01Z (a year ago)
From
Dong Xu at NAOC/CAS <dxu@nao.cas.cn>
Via
J. An, S.Q. Jiang, X. Liu, S.Y. Fu, Z.P. Zhu, T.H. Lu, D. Xu (NAOC), J.Z. Liu (XAO) report on behalf of a large collaboration:

We observed the field of GRB 231115A detected by the Fermi GBM (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 35035Not found
 
 
), INTEGRAL (Mereghetti et al., GCN 35037Not found
 
 
), and Glowbug (Cheung et al., GCN 35045Not found
 
 
), using two 50cm telescopes (50A, 50B) located at Altay, Xinjiang, China. Observations started at 17:30:51 UT on 2023-11-15, i.e., 1.91 hr after the Fermi/GBM trigger, in the Sloan g-/r-/i-/z- bands.

No credible optical transient is detected in our stacked images within and beside the error region of the INTEGRAL. Preliminary results are as follows:
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              Tmid(UT)      exp(s)   filter      UL(3-sigma)
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2023-11-15T17:47:17  60sx30      g           20.4
2023-11-15T18:20:18  60sx30      r            20.3
2023-11-15T18:34:16  30sx60      i            18.1
2023-11-15T17:54:39  30sx66      z           16.0
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calibrated with nearby PanSTARRS stars. The magnitude is not corrected for Galactic extinction. The z-band upper limit is shallower than expected due to a technical issue.

Altay Astronomical Time-Domain Project (JinShan Project for short) consists of four 50cm telescopes with FOV of 1.7x1.7 deg^2 for each (50A, 50B, 50C, and 50D), two 100cm telescopes with FOV of 1.4x1.4 deg^2 for each (100A and 100B), and one 100cm telescope with FOV of 14x14 arcmin^2 (100C). Each telescope is equipped with different filters. JinShan is now at its early commissioning stage.