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GCN Circular 9431

Subject
GRB 090529: Xinglong TNT optical observation
Date
2009-05-29T15:51:34Z (15 years ago)
From
L.P. Xin at NAOC <xlp@bao.ac.cn>
L.P. Xin, W.K. Zheng, Y. Urata, Y.L. Qiu, J.Y. Wei, 
J. Wang, J.S. Deng and J.Y. Hu on behalf of EAFON report:

We have observed GRB 090529 (Sakamoto et al. GCN 9430)
with Xinglong TNT telescope from  May 29, 14:36:54 (UT),
24.3 min after the burst. After combined 20*20s white
band images and preliminary analysis, An new source was 
found in our combined image within the XRT errorbox. 
The brightness is estimated to be about R~19.4 mag 
derived from  USNO-B1.0 R2 magnitude, at the mean time 
of 28 min since the trigger.

The observation is still going.

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