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GRB 060223A

GCN Circular 4824

Subject
GRB 060223a: Swift/UVOT refined analysis
Date
2006-02-24T02:02:39Z (19 years ago)
From
Alexander Blustin at MSSL-UCL <ajb@mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
A. J. Blustin (UCL-MSSL), J. R. Cummings (NASA/ORAU) report on
behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:

The Swift/UVOT began observing the field of GRB 060223a 72 s
after the BAT trigger, detecting a red afterglow (Cummings
et al., GCN 4813; Marshall et al., GCN 4814). Analysis of a more
complete dataset shows that V was the only band to yield a
significant detection of the afterglow, as to be expected given
the redshift of the burst (z=4.41; Berger et al., GCN 4815).
The magnitudes and 3-sigma upper limits from all filters are
listed below.

Filter  T_range (MET)  Exp (s)  Mag/3sigUL

V       72-81          9        17.7 +/- 0.4
V       85-285         200      17.8 +/- 0.1
V       545-1034       239      19.4 +/- 0.3
V       1294-11097     512      >19.6

B       292-492        200      >20.2
B       641-7249       731      >20.9

U       616-7044       532      >20.4
UVW1    593-6839       355      >20.4
UVM2    569-6634       355      >20.9
UVW2    521-10892      580      >21.1

These are uncorrected for the estimated Galactic extinction
corresponding to E(B-V) = 0.12

GCN Circular 4827

Subject
GRB 060223A:Xinglong optical limits
Date
2006-02-24T06:43:24Z (19 years ago)
From
W.K. Zheng at NAOC <zwk@bao.ac.cn>
M.Zhai, W.K. Zheng, Y.L. Qiu, J.Y. Wei,J.Y. Hu and J.S Deng, report on behalf of the Xinglong GRB follow-up team:

We observed the field of the GRB 20060223A(Cummings et al.GCN 4813)with the 0.8m telescope at Xinglong Observatory, National Astronomical Observatories,Chinese Academy of Sciences. We began  observations on Feb 23.4787 UT, 5.4158 hours after the trigger without any filter. Within 600s exposure image we do not see the optical counterpart(Cummings et al.GCN 4813) down to 19.5 with 3-sigma detection.

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