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GCN Circular 4988

Subject
GRB(?)060421:MASTER optical limit
Date
2006-04-21T11:50:19Z (19 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <gcncirc@observ.inetcomm.ru>
V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, N.Tyurina, A.Belinski, D.Kuvshinov, E.Gorbovskoy,
A.Krylov, G.Borisov, A.Sankovich,  V.Vladimirov, P.Gritsyk, S.Korobkin

Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow Union 'Optic'
MASTER  robotic system (http://observ.pereplet.ru) responded
to GRB060421 (GRB_TIME is 2006-04-21 00:39:23.33, M. R. Goad et al. 
GCN4985).

Unfortunaly 2 minutes before notice time roof closed roboticaly due to 
meteo alert "cloudy". The first image was at 2006-04-21 00:48:45 UT,
562 s  after the GRB time.
The unfiltered image is calibrated relative to USNO A2.0 (0.8 R + 0.2 B).
The robot not find OT-candidate in error box brighter then  16.8 (s/n=3) 
at Swift XRT position (Mike Goad, Kim Page GCN4987).
This work is supported by RFFI  04-02-16411 grant.
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Mailto: lipunov@sai.msu.ru
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