GCN Circular 5074
Subject
GRB 060502B: optical observations
Event
Date
2006-05-05T09:03:29Z (20 years ago)
From
Daniele Malesani at SISSA-ISAS,Trieste,Italy <malesani@sissa.it>
E.J.A. Meurs, S.D. Vergani, C. O'Maoileidigh (Dunsink Observatory), D.
Malesani (SISSA), and R. Gualandi (Loiano Observatory), report:
We observed the field of the short GRB 060502B (Troja et al. 2006, GCN
5055) with the 152 Cassini telescope located in Loiano, Italy, equipped
with BFOSC. Observations were conducted under moderate weather
conditions (passing cirrus), securing three 20-min exposures. The mean
time was May 2.96198 UT (5.68 hr after the burst). The average seeing
was 1.8". No source was detected inside the revised XRT error circle
(Troja et al. 2006, GCN 5063) in the coadded frame. The limiting
magnitude is R = 20.6 (3 sigma) based on the USNO catalog.
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