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GCN Circular 6430

Subject
GRB 070520A: MITSuME Akeno optical upper limits
Date
2007-05-21T04:19:51Z (18 years ago)
From
Nobuyuki Kawai at Tokyo Tech <nkawai@hp.phys.titech.ac.jp>
T. Ishimura, T. Shimokawabe, N. Vasquez, Y. Yatsu, Y. Kudou and
N. Kawai (Tokyo Tech) report on behalf of the MITSuME collaboration:
 
We observed the field of GRB070520A (Romano et al., GCN 6423)
with the 3-color 50cm MITSuME Telescope at Akeno, Japan starting 
at 13:15:15 UT, 10 min after the trigger, under a clear, but windy
condition.
In the co-added images of Ic, Rc, and g' bands, we did not detect
any new source in the XRT error circle.  The 3-sigma limiting
magnitudes based on USNO-B1.0 (I-band) and NOMAD (R-band,g'-band)
stars are following.

Filter   start time   end time    Exp(s)   Mag (3-sigma UL)  
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Ic       13:15:15    15:06:06     60s * 91         20.3    
Rc       13:15:15    15:06:06     60s * 91         21.2    
g'       13:15:15    15:06:06     60s * 91         21.1    
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