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GCN Circular 5656

Subject
GRB 060929: BOOTES-IR & OSN observations
Date
2006-09-29T21:10:24Z (18 years ago)
From
Antonio Deugarte at IAA-CSIC <deugarte@iaa.es>
A. de Ugarte Postigo (IAA-CSIC Granada),
V. Casanova (IAA-CSIC Granada),
P. Kubanek (ASU AV CR ndrejov & ISDC Versoix) &
A. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC Granada)
on behalf of a larger collaboration report:

"The 0.6m BOOTES-IR and 1.5m telescopes, located at IAA-CSIC 
Observatorio de Sierra Nevada in Granada (Spain), observed the 
SWIFT error box for GRB 060929 (Markwardt et al. GCN 5654) 
starting at 20:17 UT (21 minutes after the burst) in R and I-bands. 
We do not detect any optical counterpart down to the DSS2 limit. 
Further analysis is ongoing.

This message is quotable."

[GCN OPS NOTE(29sep06): Per author's request, VC was addd to the author list.]
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