[vsnet-grb-info 10914] GRB 110731A: SAO RAS and Terskol observations

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  12333
SUBJECT: GRB 110731A: SAO RAS and Terskol observations
DATE:    11/09/09 08:30:16 GMT
FROM:    Vladimir Sokolov at SAO RAS  <sokolov at sao.ru>

A. S. Moskvitin, V. V. Sokolov, O. I. Spiridonova (SAO RAS, Russia),
M. V. Andreev, A. V. Sergeev, N. A. Parakhin (Terskol Branch of Institute of
Astronomy, Russia)

We observed the field of GRB 110731A (Oates et al., GCN 12215) on July, 31
with 0.6-m Zeiss-600 (Terskol Branch of Institute of Astronomy,  Russia)
equipped with the PixelVision Vienna CCD (1024 x 1024, bin 2 x 2)
+ R filter, and 1-m Zeiss-1000 (SAO RAS, Russia) equipped with the
E2V 42-40 CCD (2048 x 2048, bin 2 x 2) + B and Rc filters. In both cases
the observations carried out at a high airmass and with the seeing ~4".

At all stacked images we did not detect any source within the Swift/UVOT
error circle (Oates., GCN 12222). Close to the error circle are visible two
objects which are also present in the USNO-B.1 catalogue:
S1: USNO-B.1 0614-0802286 (R.A.=18:42:00.72, Dec.=-28:32:14.9, E.=2000.0) &
S2: USNO-B.1 0614-0802328 (R.A.=18:42:01.24, Dec.=-28:32:11.6, E.=2000.0).
Our astrometric calibration and photometry of S1 object showed
that it can contain flux from OT but due to large seeing we can not
distinguish bright S1 and faint OT.

All three co-added images are shown at
ftp://ftp.sao.ru/pub/grb/GRB110731A/GRB110731A.jpg
Upper limits are shown at the following table.
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mid. time, UT   filter exp., sec  3-sigma lim. telescope
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19:15           R      53 x 200   19.9        Zeiss-600
19:24           Rc     31 x 60    21.7        Zeiss-1000
19:38           B      22 x 60    20.8        Zeiss-1000
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We use USNO-B.1 star 0614-0802353 (R.A.=18:42:01.83, Dec.-28:32:23.9,
E.=2000.0,  B2 = 15.77, R2 = 14.29) as a standard, and did not apply Galaxy
extinction correction.

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