GCN Circular 4132
Subject
GRB 051022A: ROTSE-III Optical Limits
Date
2005-10-22T15:02:53Z (19 years ago)
From
Brad Schaefer at LSU <schaefer@grb.phys.lsu.edu>
B. E. Schaefer (Louisiana State University) reports on behalf of the
ROTSE collaboration:
ROTSE-IIIa, located at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, responded to
GRB 051022A (HETE trigger 3950), producing images beginning 6.3 s after
the GCN notice time. An automated response took the first image at
13:08:59.8 UT, 61.3 s after the burst, under fair conditions. We took 10
5-sec, 10 20-sec and 50 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 14.5-17.2; we set
the following specific limits.
start UT end UT t_exp(s) mlim t_start-tGRB(s) Coadd?
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13:08:59.8 13:11:23.8 144 17.4 61.3 Y
13:39:26.5 13:49:26.5 600 17.9 1888.0 Y