GCN Circular 5450
Subject
GRB 060814: VLT optical limits
Event
Date
2006-08-15T01:00:16Z (19 years ago)
From
Daniele Malesani at SISSA-ISAS,Trieste,Italy <malesani@sissa.it>
D. Malesani (SISSA) and R. Scarpa (ESO) report on behalf of the MISTICI
collaboration:
We have observed the field of GRB 060814 (Moretti et al., GCN 5447).
Observations were carried out with the ESO VLT UT2 equipped with FORS1,
under thin clouds.
We find no source at the position of the X-ray afterglow, with a 3sigma
limiting magnitude R = 24. The mean time was Aug 15.0 UT (58 minutes
after the burst).
This message can be cited.
[GCN OPS NOTE(16aug06): Per author's request, 'F. Patat' was replaced
with 'R. Scarpa'.]