[vsnet-grb-info 16900] GRB150819A: NOT imaging
GCN Circulars
gcncirc at capella2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Fri Aug 21 00:28:27 JST 2015
TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 18181
SUBJECT: GRB150819A: NOT imaging
DATE: 15/08/20 15:28:20 GMT
FROM: Steve Schulze at U of Iceland <sts30 at hi.is>
S. Schulze (PUC, MAS), D. Malesani, J. P. U. Fynbo (DARK, NBI), J. Duus, T. Hinz-Berg, O. Busborg Jensen (NBI) and P. Jakobsson (U Iceland) report on behalf a larger collaboration:
We observed the field of GRB 150819A (Ukwatta et al., GCN 18163) with the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) equipped with ALFOSC. We obtained 4 images in the I band and 3 images in the z band with an individual sub-exposure time of 300 s. Observations started at 02:01 UT on August 19 (i.e. 1.19 hr after the burst).
We detect no credible source in the co-added I and z band images at the refined XRT localisation (Evans et al., GCN 18167). The limiting magnitude of the I-band image is 23 mag (3 sigma, Vega). This value is not corrected for foreground extinction. The flux calibration of the z-band image is still pending.
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