GCN Circular 35181
Subject
GRB230506C: VIRT optical upper limit
Date
2023-11-24T20:35:39Z (8 months ago)
From
Priya Gokuldass at ERAU <gokuldap@my.erau.edu>
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Kiwanee’ Smith (UVI), P. Gokuldass (ERAU), N. Orange (OrangeWave Innovative Science, LLC), D. Morris (NASA), Ki’Vante’ Smith (UVI), K. Noonan (UVI), R. Querrard (UVI), T. Lombardi (Eckerd College)
We observed the field of GRB230506C (Tohuvavohu et al. GCN 33731) with the 0.5m Virgin Island Robotic Telescope (VIRT) at the University of the Virgin Islands' Etelman Observatory on 05-07-2023 starting at 00:17:36.395 (T+7.07 hrs). We performed a series of exposures in R filter with a total exposure of 3810 s. The weather conditions were clear during the hours of observation with an average airmass of ~1.55.
We do not detect the source identified by others (Pankov et al., GCN 33734; Jelinek et al., GCN 33735; Adami et al., GCN 33741; Moskvitin et al., GCN 33748) and report the following 3-sigma upper limit:
T_mid ||Exposure ||Filter ||Limit
T+7.3 hrs ||3810s ||R ||>20.5
The limit is estimated from comparison to nearby USNO B1 stars and is not corrected for Galactic extinction. The VIRT is still in the commissioning phase.
We acknowledge financial support from NASA MUREP MIRO award 80NSSC21M0001, NASA EPSCoR award 80NSSC22M0063, and NSF EiR award 1901296. R.Q. and N.B.O. also acknowledge financial support from South Carolina Space Grant award 80NSSC20M0054. This message can be cited.