[vsnet-grb-info 2446] GRB 051117B: ROTSE-III Optical Limits
GCN Circulars
gcncirc at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Fri Nov 18 01:58:00 JST 2005
TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER: 4283
SUBJECT: GRB 051117B: ROTSE-III Optical Limits
DATE: 05/11/17 16:55:47 GMT
FROM: Wiphu Rujopakarn at U Michigan/ROTSE <wiphu at umich.edu>
W. Rujopakarn (U Mich), H. Swan (U Mich), B. Schaefer (Louisiana State), F. Yuan
(U Mich), T. Guver (U Istanbul), report on behalf of the ROTSE collaboration:
ROTSE-IIIa, located at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, responded to GRB
051117B (Swift trigger 164279), producing images beginning 18 s after the GCN
notice time. An automated response took the first image at 13:24:11.0 UT, 75.6
s after the burst, under windy conditions. These observations were affected by
proximity to the full moon yielding shallow limiting magnitudes. We took 10
5-sec, and 140 20-sec exposures. These unfiltered images are calibrated
relative to USNO A2.0 (R).
Comparison to the DSS (second epoch) reveals no new sources within the 3-sigma
error circle, for both single images and coadding into sets of 10. Individual
images have limiting magnitudes ranging from 13.9-16.3; we set the following
specific limits.
start UT end UT t_exp(s) mlim t_start-tGRB(s) Coadd?
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13:24:12.0 13:24:17.0 5 14.2 76.6 N
13:24:12.0 13:27:07.8 175 15.8 76.6 Y
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