GCN Circular 9120

Subject

GRB090408 : TAOS optical observations

Event

Date

2009-04-10T07:28:36Z (17 years ago)

From

Kuiyun Huang at ASIAA <ljhuang@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw>

GRB090408 : TAOS optical observations

S.K. King, K.Y. Huang, S.Y. Wang and the TAOS team

The four 50cm TAOS telescopes observed GRB 090408 position (Stroh et
al, GCN9110Loading...
 
 ) at 91s after the burst. No new optical emission was
detected in the BAT possition error range. The 3-sigma limiting
magnitude, compared with USNOB red stars, are as follows:

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  Mean Dealy(s)   Exposure time   Limit mag.  Telescope
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    157            5s x15             15.2         TAOSB
    221.5          1s x60             14.8         TAOSD
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Lijin (Kuiyun) Huang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA)
Phone: 886-2-3365 2200 x728