GCN Circular 5167
Subject
GRB 060526: TNG optical observations
Date
2006-05-26T22:12:02Z (18 years ago)
From
Stefano Covino at Brera Astronomical Observatory <stefano.covino@brera.inaf.it>
S. Covino, G.L. Israel, F. Ghinassi, N. Pinilla, on behalf of the
CIBO collaboration, report:
We observed the optical counterpart of GRB 060526 (Campana et al. GCN
5162; French & Jelinek GCN 5165; Rykoff et al. GCN 5166) with the
3.6m TNG telescope located at the Canary Islands. V and R photometry
have been obtained with TNG+DOLoRES.
The afterglow is clearly detected at 21:00:56 UT (about 4:32 after
the burst) with R = 18.43 +- 0.04, assuming R = 15.0 for the USNO
star at RA,DEC 15:31:17.90, 00:15:28.8.
Further observations are in progress.
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