GCN Circular 811
Subject
GRB000926: Optical observations
Event
Date
2000-09-29T03:00:25Z (26 years ago)
From
Paul Price at RSAA, ANU at CIT <pap@srl.caltech.edu>
P.A. Price, O. Pevunova, B.F. Madore, A. Diercks and J.S. Bloom (Caltech)
report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
"We have observed the optical transient candidate of Dall et. al. (GCN #804)
and Gorosabel et. al. (GCN #803) with the Palomar 60-inch telescope in
B, R and I. Photometry was performed relative to the USNO-A2.0 star
U1350_09071131 at J2000 coordinates RA 17:04:01.21, Dec +51:46:19.9 (as per
Halpern et. al., GCN #806). Results are as follows:
Filter Epoch Relative Reference Magnitude
B Sep 28.193 2.427 +/- 0.049 mag 17.8 mag 20.227 +/- 0.049
R Sep 28.213 2.934 +/- 0.037 mag 17.1 mag 20.034 +/- 0.037
I Sep 28.173 2.917 +/- 0.052 mag Unknown
(Errors are statistical only.)
Further observations are planned."
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