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GCN Circular 4874

Subject
GRB060313: optical observations of the afterglow candidate
Date
2006-03-13T06:16:28Z (18 years ago)
From
Christina Thoene at Niels Bohr Institute,DARK Cosmo Ctr <cthoene@astro.ku.dk>
Christina Thoene, Chloe Feron, Jens Hjorth and Brian L. Jensen (Dark
Cosmology Centre) report

We obtained R and I band observations of GRB 060313 (GCN 4867) with the
Danish 1.5m telescope and DFOSC at La Silla. Observations started at UT
00:23:53 (11min after the burst) until UT 02:11:10. Inside the XRT error
circle (GCN 4870) we detect a new, previously uncatalogued source at the
position (J2000)

RA = : 04:26:28.42
Dec =-10:50:39.84

This is consistent with the position reported in GCN 4871 and GCN 4872.

The R magnitude obtained from stacked images with a mean time of about 1h
after the burst is

R = 20.4 (based on preliminary photometric zero points)

A finding chart can be found at:
http://www.astro.ku.dk/~brian_j/grb/grb060313.008/
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