GCN Circular 8362
Subject
GRB 081012: ROTSE-III Optical Limits
Date
2008-10-12T14:54:25Z (16 years ago)
From
Fang Yuan at ROTSE <yuanfang@umich.edu>
F. Yuan (U Mich) report on behalf of the ROTSE collaboration:
ROTSE-IIIa, located at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, responded
to GRB 081012 (Swift trigger 331475, GCN 8361, Stroh et al. ),
producing images beginning 7.2s after the GCN notice time. An
automated response took the first image at 13:11:03.2 UT, 39.3s after
the burst. Early observations were affected by proximity to the full
moon and the first usable image started at 13:27:03.0 UT, ~1000s after
the burst. We took over 100 20s exposures. These unfiltered images are
calibrated relative to USNO A2.0 (R). Imaging is on going.
Comparison to the DSS (second epoch) reveals no new sources within the
3-sigma Swift/BAT error circle, for both single images and coadding
into sets of 10. Individual images have limiting magnitudes ranging
from 15.8-16.2; we set the following specific limits.
start UT end UT t_exp(s) mlim t_start-tGRB(s) Coadd?
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13:27:03.0 13:27:23.0 20 15.8 999 N
13:28:01.3 13:32:42.9 281 17.4 1057 Y