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GCN Circular 5417

Subject
GRB060807: optical upper limit in white light
Date
2006-08-07T20:29:05Z (18 years ago)
From
Sven Duscha at MPE <sduscha@mpe.mpg.de>
S. Duscha M. Muehlegger A. Stefanescu G. Kanbach,N. Prymak, F. Schrey H. 
Steinle (MPE Garching) of the OPTIMA-Burst team report from the 1.3m Skinakas 
Observatory (University of Crete Heraklion Greece):


We observed the position of the XRT errorcircle of GRB 060807 (trigger 
#223217 De Pasquale et al. GCN Circ. 5409) on 2006 Aug 07 19:25 UT 
(mid-exposure; about 5 hours post burst): In a 20 min white light exposure we 
do not detect a counterpart candidate brighter than mag 20.
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