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GCN Circular 5258

Subject

GRB060614: SSO 1m observations

Date

2006-06-15T07:26:06Z (18 years ago)

From

Brian Schmidt at RSAA, ANU (MSSSO) <brian@mso.anu.edu.au>

Brian Schmidt, Bruce Peterson, and Karen Lewis (RSAA, The Australian National University) report

"The  1m telescope, located at Siding Spring Observatory,
observed the SWIFT error box for GRB 060614 (Parsons et al. GCN 5252Not found
 
 
, Mangano et al GCN 5254Not found
 
 
, Holland et al GCN 5255Not found
 
 
, Barthelmy et al GCN 5256Not found
 
 
) starting 20 minutes after burst trigger. Our photometry shows the OT rising in brightness from R=20.2 to R=18.8 in the 5 hours following the burst. Observations presented below are referenced to UCAC2 star of R=15.74 located at  RA=21:23:31.573, DEC=-53:02:21.528 J2000.0

  UT + 2006Jun14    R	  err	
 ===============================
      0.5483       20.2  (0.3)
      0.5525       19.9  (0.2)	
      0.5566       19.9  (0.2)
      0.5607       19.9  (0.2)
      0.6017       19.1  (0.1)
      0.6492       19.2  (0.1)
      0.6912       19.1  (0.1)
      0.7272       19.0  (0.1)
      0.7731       18.8  (0.1)