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GCN Circular 5509

Subject
GRB 060904B BOOTES-IR and 1.5m OSN observations
Date
2006-09-04T04:28:18Z (18 years ago)
From
Antonio Deugarte at IAA-CSIC <deugarte@iaa.es>
A. de Ugarte Postigo, F. Aceituno, A.J. Castro-Tirado
(IAA-CSIC Granada), P. Kubanek (ASU AV CR ndrejov & 
ISDC Versoix) on behalf of a larger collaboration report:

"The 0.6m BOOTES-IR and 1.5m telescope, located at IAA-CSIC 
Observatorio de Sierra  Nevada in Granada (Spain), observed the 
SWIFT error box for GRB 060904B (Grupe et al. GCN 5505) starting at
02:38:30 UT observing in I & R-bands. We clearly detect the optical
counterpart reported by Rykoff et al. (GCN 5504), at coordinates J2000
(+/-0.5"):

03:52:50.54 -00:43:30.5

>From 02:38:30 to 02:48:35 UT the object has declined in 0.66 +/- 0.17 
magnitudes.

This message is quotable."

[GCN OPS NOTE(04sep06): Per author's request, the 'B' was added.]
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