GCN Circular 3608
Subject
GRB 050714A: ROTSE-III Optical Limits
Date
2005-07-14T01:31:23Z (19 years ago)
From
Brad Schaefer at LSU <schaefer@grb.phys.lsu.edu>
B. Schaefer (Louisiana State), S.A. Yost (U Mich), H. Swan (U Mich), E.S.
Rykoff (U Mich), report on behalf of the ROTSE collaboration:
ROTSE-IIId, located at the Turkish National Observatory at Bakirlitepe,
Turkey, responded to GRB 050714A (Integral trigger 2598), producing images
beginning 9.1 s after the GCN notice time. An automated response took the
first image at 00:06:33.1 UT, 27.9 s after the burst, under excellent
conditions. We took 10 5-sec, 10 20-sec and 60 60-sec eposures. These
unfiltered images are calibrated relative to USNO A2.0 (R).
Comparison to the DSS (second epoch) reveals no new sources within the
3-sigma error circle, for both single images and coadding into sets of 10.
Individual images have limiting magnitudes ranging from 16.5-17.9; we set
the following specific limits.
start UT end UT t_exp(s) mlim t_start-tGRB(s) Coadd?
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00:06:33.1 0:06:38.1 5 16.6 27.9 N
00:06:33.1 0:08:55.1 142 18.2 27.9 Y