Skip to main content
New Announcement Feature, Code of Conduct, Circular Revisions. See news and announcements

GCN Circular 9090

Subject
GRB 090404: Xinglong TNT optical Upper Limit
Date
2009-04-04T23:49:27Z (15 years ago)
From
L.P. Xin at NAOC <xlp@bao.ac.cn>
GRB 090404: Xinglong TNT optical Upper Limit

L.P. Xin, W.K. Zheng, Y.L. Qiu, J.Y. Wei,
j. Wang, J.S. Deng, Y. Urata and J.Y. Hu 
on behalf of EAFON report:

We have observed GRB090404 (Ziaeepour et al., 
GCN 9086; Beardmore et al., GCN 9088)
with Xinglong TNT telescope from Apr.4,15:58:17 (UT),
107 sec after the burst. After combined 18*20s white
band images, no new source was found in our combined
image. The 3 sigma upper limits calibrated to USNO-B1.0 
R2 magnitude is R=20.37 mag at the mean time of 333 sec 
after the trigger.

This message may be cited.

For more information about Xinglong GRBs Follow-up
observations, please visit the website:
http://www.xinglong-naoc.org/grb/
Looking for U.S. government information and services? Visit USA.gov