GCN Circular 12697
Subject
GRB111215A: Pre-Outburst Palomar 48 inch Imaging
Date
2011-12-16T20:26:36Z (13 years ago)
From
S. Bradley Cenko at Caltech <cenko@srl.caltech.edu>
S. B. Cenko (UC Berkeley), P. E. Nugent (LBNL / UC Berkeley), and S. R.
Kulkarni (Caltech) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
We have examined pre-outburst imaging of the location of GRB111215A (Oates
et al., GCN12681) obtained over the last 7 years with the Palomar 48 inch
Oschin Schmidt telescope.
As part of the Palomar Transient Factory, we have imaged the location of
GRB111215A regularly (every ~ 3-4 nights) over the time period from June -
October 2011. Coadding all images of this location, no sources are
detected within the XRT error circle (Beardmore et al., GCN12690) to a
limiting magnitude of r' > 22.8 mag (calibrated with respect to several
nearby field stars from SDSS). Furthermore, no previous outbursts are
detected in any individual frames over this period, to a typical limiting
magnitude of r' > 20.5 mag.
In addition, we co-added 117 archival images from the DeepSky* project at
Palomar Observatory obtained over the time period from 2004-2008 as part
of the Palomar-Quest Consortium. No source is detected at the XRT
position to a limiting magnitude of i' > 22.6 mag.
* http://supernova.lbl.gov/~nugent/deepsky.html