[vsnet-grb-info 3332] GRB 060526: TNG optical observations
GCN Circulars
gcncirc at capella.gsfc.nasa.gov
Sat May 27 07:12:59 JST 2006
TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER: 5167
SUBJECT: GRB 060526: TNG optical observations
DATE: 06/05/26 22:12:02 GMT
FROM: Stefano Covino at Brera Astronomical Observatory <stefano.covino at brera.inaf.it>
S. Covino, G.L. Israel, F. Ghinassi, N. Pinilla, on behalf of the
CIBO collaboration, report:
We observed the optical counterpart of GRB 060526 (Campana et al. GCN
5162; French & Jelinek GCN 5165; Rykoff et al. GCN 5166) with the
3.6m TNG telescope located at the Canary Islands. V and R photometry
have been obtained with TNG+DOLoRES.
The afterglow is clearly detected at 21:00:56 UT (about 4:32 after
the burst) with R = 18.43 +- 0.04, assuming R = 15.0 for the USNO
star at RA,DEC 15:31:17.90, 00:15:28.8.
Further observations are in progress.
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