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GCN Circular 4929

Subject
GRB060218, optical observations
Date
2006-03-27T16:57:54Z (18 years ago)
From
Adalberto Piccioni at Astronomy, Bologna U. <adb@piccio.org>
F. Terra, (Second University of Roma "Tor Vergata"), D. Nanni
(INAF/OAR and Second University of Roma "Tor Vergata"), G. Greco,
C. Bartolini, A. Guarnieri, A. Piccioni (Bologna University), R.
Gualandi, A. De Blasi (INAF Bologna) and G. Pizzichini (INAF/IASF
Bologna) report:

We observed the OT of GRB 060218/SN 2006aj (Cusumano et al. GCN 4775)
in the V and R bands with the 152 cm Loiano telescope equipped with
the BFOSC camera system.
Observations  were carried out on 2006 Mar 7  and 11 under  poor
observing conditions (seeing=2.7-3.2 arcsec).
Using  the comparison stars reported by Hicken et al. (GCN 4898), we
find the following magnitudes, in agreement with those given by other
authors, e.g. Sollerman et al., astro-ph/0603495 and Pian et al.,
astro-ph/0603530:

Mean UT.........filter.....Exptime(s)....... magnitude
Mar 07.7506 ......Rc...........300..........17.31+/-0.06
Mar 07.7633.......Rc......... 1200..........17.36+/-0.03
Mar 07.7779.......V...........1200..........17.76+/-0.04
Mar 11.7865.......V............300..........18.15+/-0.08
Mar 11.7962.......V...........1200..........18.11+/-0.06
Mar 11.8123.......Rc..........1200..........17.63+/-0.04
Mar 11.8302.......Rc..........1200..........17.60+/-0.04

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