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GCN Circulars are rapid astronomical bulletins submitted by and distributed to community members worldwide. They are used to share discoveries, observations, quantitative near-term predictions, requests for follow-up observations, or future observing plans related to high-energy, multi-messenger, and variable or transient astrophysical events. See the documentation for help with subscribing to or submitting Circulars.

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subject:"Swift"
body:"GRB"
submitter:"Judith Racusin"
  1. Possible GRB050825:MASTER optical observations
  2. Swift-BAT trigger 152038 is definitely not a GRB
  3. GRB050824: CORRECTION to UVOT observing times
  4. Swift-BAT trigger 152038 is probably not a GRB
  5. GRB050824: Swift/UVOT detection of fading afterglow
  6. GRB050824: decay of the XRT light curve and updated X-ray spectrum
  7. GRB050824, I-band imaging
  8. GRB050824: Radio Observations
  9. GRB 050824: Spectroscopic redshift from the VLT
  10. GRB 050822: refined XRT analysis
  11. GRB 050824: XRT refined analysis and possible afterglow detection
  12. GRB 050824: BAT refined analysis of a soft weak burst
  13. GRB050824: MASTER:OT decay
  14. GRB050824: MASTER observation OT
  15. GRB050805a: MASTER optical candidat
  16. GRB 050824: ROTSE-III Optical Limits
  17. GRB050824: Swift-BAT detection of a burst
  18. GRB 050824 optical candidate
  19. GRB050820A: RTT150 optical observations
  20. GRB050820a: PROMPT RcIc Observations
  21. GRB050815: Maidanak optical observation
  22. XRF050509c: Radio upper limits from GMRT
  23. VLT/UVES spectroscopy of GRB050820
  24. GRB050822: Swift/UVOT upper limits
  25. GRB 050820A BAT observations of second, larger episode of emission
  26. GRB050813: Maidanak I-band observations
  27. GRB 050822: Swift-BAT refined analysis
  28. GRB050525, GRB050607, GRB050802 BVRcIc field photometry
  29. GRB050820B at FRAM
  30. GRB050820A: RTT150 optical observations
  31. GRB 050820a - corrections to GCN 3846
  32. Swift/UVOT UV Photometry of GRB 050820B
  33. GRB 050822: ROTSE-III Prompt Optical Limits
  34. GRB 050822: Swift detection of a long burst
  35. Correction to Eiso calculation in GCN 3835 on GRB 050820A
  36. GRB050820A: Radio Observation
  37. GRB050825a - very long GRB like GRB041219a? (Konus-Wind observation)
  38. GRB050820a BVRcIc field photometry
  39. GRB050820B XMM-Newton observation
  40. GRB 050820a: NIR Observations by WIRO
  41. GRB 050820B: Swift XRT position
  42. GRB050820B: Planned XMM-Newton observation
  43. GRB050820B: Refined analysis of the Swift-BAT burst
  44. GRB050820B: BAT-Swift detection of a bright GRB
  45. Swift/UVOT photometry of GRB050820
  46. GRB050820: refined XRT analysis
  47. GRB 050820: Early RAPTOR detections
  48. GRB 050820 Swift-BAT refined analysis
  49. GRB 050820: P60 Temporal Decay Index
  50. GRB 050820: High Resolution Spectroscopy from Keck
  51. GRB050819: refined XRT analysis
  52. GRB050819: RTT150 optical observations
  53. GRB 050820: Swift detection of a GRB
  54. GRB050820: Optical afterglow from P60
  55. GRB 050819 Swift-BAT refined analysis
  56. GRB050819: Swift XRT position
  57. GRB050819: Swift-BAT detection of a weak burst
  58. Swift-BAT trigger 150993 is not a GRB
  59. Swift Trigger 150823 is HETE J1900.1-2455
  60. GRB 050817: Optical observations
  61. GRB 050815: Radio Observation
  62. GRB050814: Radio Observation
  63. GRB050817: Negative Optical Observations
  64. GRB050817: Swift-BAT Detection of a burst
  65. GRB 050814: continued fading
  66. GRB050815: Optical afterglow detection by Swift UVOT
  67. GRB050815: XRT refined analysis
  68. GRB 050813: Radio Observations
  69. GRB050815: Refined analysis of the Swift-BAT burst
  70. GRB 050815: ROTSE-III Optical Limits
  71. GRB050815: Swift XRT afterglow localization
  72. GRB050815: Swift-BAT detection of a burst
  73. GRB 050730: Third Epoch WSRT Radio Observations
  74. GRB050814: Fading red source
  75. GRB 050813: Gemini Spectra Revisited
  76. GRB050814: P60 Optical Afterglow Candidate
  77. GRB 050813: Non-fading of afterglow candidate
  78. GRB 050814: XRT refined analysis
  79. GRB050814: SWIFT/UVOT observation
  80. GRB050814: Refined analysis of the Swift-BAT burst
  81. GRB050813: Gemini Imaging
  82. GRB 050813: Gemini spectroscopy and redshifts of galaxies B and C
  83. GRB 050814: Swift XRT Afterglow Localization
  84. GRB 050814: Swift detection of a burst
  85. GRB 050813: Magellan detection of a high redshift galaxy cluster
  86. GRB050813: RTT150 optical observations
  87. GRB 050813: I-band observations
  88. GRB050813, SDSS pre-burst observations
  89. GRB 050813: KAIT optical limit
  90. GRB 050813: Swift-BAT refined analysis
  91. GRB 050813: Photometry of object in XRT error circle
  92. GRB050813: SWIFT/UVOT observation
  93. GRB 050813: Swift XRT afterglow localization
  94. RBO GRB 050714A and GRB 050716 observations
  95. GRB 050813: Possible Short Swift-BAT GRB
  96. GRB050813 (Swift 150139): P60 Observations
  97. Swift-BAT trigger 150131 is not a GRB
  98. GRB050807(=H3889): An X-Ray Rich GRB Localized by HETE
  99. Ongoing activity of SGR 1806-20: an intermediate burst 050811
  100. GRB050803: CrAO optical observations, no OT candidate

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