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GRB 060111A

GCN Circular 4494

Subject
GRB060111A: RTT150 optical observations
Date
2006-01-12T08:57:42Z (19 years ago)
From
Irek Khamitov at TUG <irekk@tug.tug.tubitak.gov.tr>
I. Khamitov, K. Uluc, Z. Aslan (TUG), U. Kiziloglu (METU),
E. Gogus (Sabanci Uni.), T. Saygac, O. Onal (Ist. Uni.)
R. Burenin, M. Pavlinsky, R. Sunyaev (IKI)
I. Bikmaev, N. Sakhibullin (KSU/AST)

report:

We observed field around of possible optical counterpart (Blustin et
al., GCN4482) of GRB060111A (Swift trigger 176818) with Russian-Turkish
1.5-m telescope (RTT150, Bakyrlytepe, TUBITAK National Observatory,
Turkey), starting on Jan. 12, 03:37UT, i.e. ~23.2 hours after the burst.

A series of frames (8*300s exposures in R band) were taken. The
afterglow candidate was detected only marginally near the detection
limit of our combined image, which is estimated as R~23.2 (photometry is
USNO-B1 calibrated). We also note that at about 5 arcsec from the OT we
detected an extended source whith R=21.75+/-0.1, which may be a host
galaxy of the GRB. The coordinates of this galaxy are RA= 18h24m49.01s
(J2000.0) DEC=+37d36'09."6 (J2000.0).

The finding chart can be found at:
http://www.tug.tubitak.gov.tr/~irekk/grb/grb060111a/grb060111A.JPG

Also we have to do a correction to GCN4493: We detected extended source
in direction to SE, not NW. The upper limit for the GRB060111B OT is
also actually deeper: R=~23.6 (the difference is due to corrected error
in photometric calibration).

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GCN Circular 4497

Subject
GRB 060111A: refined UVOT anaysis
Date
2006-01-12T16:27:17Z (19 years ago)
From
Alexander Blustin at MSSL-UCL <ajb@mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
S. R. Rosen (UCL-MSSL), S. Zane (UCL-MSSL), A. J. Blustin (UCL-MSSL),
K. Hurley (Berkeley), M. Chester (PSU), N. Gehrels (GSFC) on behalf
of the Swift/UVOT team

Further analysis of the Swift/UVOT data for GRB 060111A (Zane et al.,
GCN 4479) reveals that the afterglow candidate reported by Blustin et
al. (GCN 4482) in the initial UVOT V-band exposure has faded from view
in subsequent data. The 3 sigma magnitude upper limits from later summed
images in the different filters are as follows:

Filter   T_range(s)  Exp(s)  3sigUL(mag)

V        3750-4105   59      18.5
V        4757-10346  472     19.6

B        280-17141   1746    21.2
U        6042-16227  1476    20.8
W1       5838-21553  1033    20.3
M2       5633-10550  572     20.1
W2       9942-12104  435     20.1

These magnitudes are uncorrected for Galactic extinction.

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