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GCN Circular 5557

Subject
GRB060906: Danish/DFOSC optical observations
Date
2006-09-10T23:53:09Z (18 years ago)
From
Klaas Wiersema at GRACE/U of Amsterdam <kwrsema@science.uva.nl>
K. Wiersema (University of Amsterdam) and E. Rol (University of
Leicester) report:

We observed the position of GRB060906 (Racusin et al. GCN5528) with
the Danish 1.5m telescope at La Silla equipped with DFOSC.
Observations were done under high airmass, starting on
September 8 08:06 UT and ending at 08:52 UT. In the sum of 7 x 5 min
exposures in I band we do not detect the optical afterglow (Cenko et al.
GCN5529). Using a sample of 23 USNO-B stars we find a 3 sigma upper limit
of I = 21.95. The standard deviation in the zeropoint as determined
from the USNO stars is 0.24 mag.
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