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GCN Circular 3562

Subject
GRB 050701, optical observations
Date
2005-07-02T21:20:02Z (19 years ago)
From
Alberto Castro-Tirado at LAEFF-INTA <ajct@laeff.esa.es>
T. Britton (Univ. of Auckland), J. Gorosabel (IAA-CSIC Granada),
P. Tristram, Ph. Yock (Univ. of Auckland), M. Sasaki, C. Okada, 
S. Nakamura and K. Kamiya (Nagoya Univ.), O. Bogdanov (Nikolaev 
State Univ.), S. Guziy and A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC),

report:

Following the detection of GRB 050701 by Swift/BAT (Boyd et 
al, GCN 3356), we obtained R- & I-band images starting 5.0 
hours after the trigger, at the 0.6 m and 1.8 m telescopes at
Mt. John Astronomical Observatory.  No new source is detected
within the 6"  radius XRT error circle (Hurkett et al., GCN 3560)
down to the DSS-2 limiting magnitude. We also notice that there 
is considerable extinction towards this line of sight.

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