GCN Circular 6704
Subject
GRB 070802: REM optical observations
Date
2007-08-03T13:54:30Z (17 years ago)
From
Eliana Palazzi at IASF/CNR,Bologna <palazzi@iasfbo.inaf.it>
E.Palazzi, S. Covino, L.A. Antonelli, L. Calzoletti,
S. Campana, G. Chincarini, M.L. Conciatore, S. Cutini, P.
D'Avanzo, V. D'Elia, F. Dalessio, F. Fiore, D. Fugazza, P.
Goldoni, D. Guetta, C. Guidorzi, G.L. Israel, D. Malesani, N.
Masetti, A. Melandri, E. Meurs, L. Nicastro, E. Pian, S. Piranomonte, D.
Rizzuto, L. Stella, G. Stratta, G. Tagliaferri, G. Tosti, V.
Testa, S.D. Vergani, F. Vitali report on behalf of the REM team:
"We observed the field of the GRB 070802 (S. D. Barthelmy et al., GCN
6692) with the robotic 60-cm REM telescope located at La Silla (Chile).
A set of observations was performed automatically in the R optical filter
starting at 07:17:44 UT (52 sec after the Swift alert; about 10 minutes
after the burst) and lasted about 40 minutes.
The analysis of the first 15 minutes exposures do not show
the optical/NIR afterglow candidate reported by J. Greiner et al (GCN
6694), E. Berger et al (GCN. 6695), D. Malesani et al (GCN. 6696).
The 3-sigma limiting magnitude in the stacked images is R~17.0"