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GRB 000519

GCN Circular 672

Subject
IPN triangulation of GRB000519
Date
2000-05-19T21:12:03Z (25 years ago)
From
Kevin Hurley at UCBerkeley/SSL <khurley@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu>
K. Hurley, on behalf of the Ulysses GRB Team, S. Barthelmy, on behalf
of the GCN GRB team, F. Frontera, C. Guidorzi and E. Montanari, on
behalf of the BeppoSAX GRBM team, and T. Cline, on behalf of the NEAR
GRB team, report:

Ulysses, BATSE, the BeppoSAX GRBM, and NEAR observed this burst at
29885 s UT.  (BATSE Trigger #8111).  As observed by Ulysses, it
had a duration ~15 s, and a 25-100 keV fluence 3x10^-6 erg/cm^2.
We have triangulated it to a preliminary 100 sq. arcmin. error
box whose 3 sigma coordinates are:

    RA(2000)                 DEC(2000)
 23 h  4 m 38.55 s      1 o 10 '  16.67 "  (CENTER)
 23 h  5 m  9.33 s      1 o 12 '  58.16 "  (CORNER)
 23 h  4 m 25.46 s      1 o  2 '  54.25 "  (CORNER)
 23 h  4 m 51.59 s      1 o 17 '  39.60 "  (CORNER)
 23 h  4 m  7.73 s      1 o  7 '  35.67 "  (CORNER)

This error box can be refined.

GCN Circular 673

Subject
GRB000519, BVRI field photometry
Date
2000-05-21T17:47:17Z (25 years ago)
From
Arne A. Henden at USNO/USRA <aah@nofs.navy.mil>
A. Henden (USRA/USNO) reports on behalf of the USNO GRB team:

We have acquired preliminary BVRcIc all-sky photometry for
an 11x11 arcmin field that covers the majority of the
error box for GRB000519 with the USNOFS 1.0-m telescope on one
photometric night.  Stars brighter than
V=13 are saturated and should be used with care.
We have placed the photometric data on our anonymous ftp site:
ftp://ftp.nofs.navy.mil/pub/outgoing/aah/grb/grb000519.dat
The current photometry has a potential external zero-point
error of about two percent.  The astrometry in this file
is based on linear plate solutions with respect to USNO-A2.0.
The internal errors are less than 100mas.
  Further calibration of this field will be performed if
an optical afterglow is identified.

GCN Circular 679

Subject
GRB000519: Optical observations
Date
2000-05-30T13:25:21Z (25 years ago)
From
Brian Lindgren Jensen at U.of Copenhagen <brian_j@astro.ku.dk>
B. L. Jensen, H. Pedersen, J. Hjorth (U. of Copenhagen),
J. Gorosabel (DSRI, Copenhagen),
T. H. Dall, J. P. U. Fynbo (U. of Aarhus) and
S. O'Toole (U. of Sydney), report on 
behalf of a larger European collaboration:

"We have obtained images covering about 95% of the 100
sq. arcmin error  box reported by Hurley et al. (GCN #672)
with the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope (+ALFOSC, mosaic
of 5 pointings) on La Palma, and the 1.54-m Danish
Telescope (+DFOSC) at La Silla, as follows:

Telescope   Date                       Filter/Exp     FWHM

NOT	    2000 May 20.17 UT (t+20h)  R: 180-360 s   1.5"
DK-1.54m    2000 May 20.39 UT (t+25h)  R: 4x240 s     1.7"
DK-1.54m    2000 May 25.37 UT (t+6d)   R: 3x300 s     3.5"

Observations were hampered by moonlight. Using the photometry 
provided by Henden (GCN #673), we obtain limiting magnitudes 
of R~20.8 for the NOT, and R~21.0 for the DK-1.5m May 20
image. 

The exposures have been compared internally, and with the 
DSS-II (red) exposure. No candidate counterpart was found."

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