GCN Circular 5089
Subject
GRB 060505: PROMPT Observations
Date
2006-05-08T00:12:19Z (18 years ago)
From
Josh Haislip at U.North Carolina <haislip@physics.unc.edu>
J. Haislip, M. Nysewander, D. Reichart, A. LaCluyze, J. A. Crain, K.
Ivarsen, A. Foster, C. MacLeod, J. Kirschbrown, A. Trotter, and J.
Carpenter report on behalf of the UNC team of the FUN GRB Collaboration:
Skynet observed the localization of GRB 060505 (Palmer et al., GCN 5076)
with three of the 16-inch PROMPT telescopes at CTIO beginning 23.2 hours
after the burst in Ug'r'i'z'. Two of these telescopes reobserved the field
in i'z' beginning 47.2 hours after the burst.
No new source is found to z' > 20.6 mag (3 sigma) at 25.5 hours after the
burst.
PROMPT is currently being built and commissioned.