{
  "email": "paolo.davanzo@brera.inaf.it",
  "subject": "XRF 090702: VLT imaging",
  "editedOn": 1777053143936,
  "editedBy": "Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov>",
  "createdOn": 1246584227000,
  "eventId": "XRF 090702",
  "body": "P. D'Avanzo (Univ. Bicocca/INAF-OAB), S. Campana, S. Covino (INAF-OAB), \nE. Bozzo (ISDC) and L. Stella (INAF-OAR) report, on behalf of a larger \ncollaboration:\n\nWe observed the field of XRF 090702 (Paizis et al., GCN 9603) with the \nESO-VLT equipped with the FORS2 camera in imaging mode. In a first \nseries of R-band images (6 minutes of total exposure time) carried out \non Jul 2.9965, we do not see any optical counterpart inside the XRT \nerror circle (Sbarufatti & Mangano, GCN 9604) down to a limiting \nmagnitude of R > 24.2 (3sigma limit, calibrated against USNOB1 catalogue).\n\nWe note that the GRB position is about 10 deg from the Virgo Cluster.\n\nWe aknowledge the Paranal staff for their support, in particular C. \nLedoux and K. O'Brien.",
  "bibcode": "2009GCN..9605....1D",
  "circularId": 9605,
  "version": 2,
  "submitter": "Paolo D'Avanzo at INAF-OAB  <paolo.davanzo@brera.inaf.it>"
}