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GCN Circular 811

Subject
GRB000926: Optical observations
Date
2000-09-29T03:00:25Z (24 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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