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GCN Circular 18952

Subject
GRB160131.35 MASTER-Net OT detection
Date
2016-01-31T09:51:26Z (9 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
V.Yurkov, Yu.Sergienko, D.Varda, E.Sinyakov
Blagoveschensk Educational State University, Blagoveschensk

E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, D.Kuvshinov, N.Tyurina, P.Balanutsa, A.Kuznetsov, V.V.Chazov,
Lomonosov Moscow State University,
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University

K.Ivanov, S.Yazev, N.M.Budnev, O.Gres, O.Chuvalaev, V.A.Poleshchuk
Irkutsk State University

V.Krushinski, I.Zalozhnih,  A. Popov
Ural Federal University, Kourovka

A. Tlatov, A.V. Parhomenko, D. Dormidontov, V.Senik
Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory

D.Buckley, S. Potter, A.Kniazev, M.Kotze
South African Astronomical Observatory

Hugo Levato and Carlos Saffe
Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio (ICATE)

Claudio Mallamaci, Carlos Lopez and Federico Podest
Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (OAFA)

R. Rebolo, M. Serra, N. Lodieu, G. Israelian, L. Suarez-Andres
The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias

MASTER II  robotic telescope (MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru) located in Blagoveschensk was pointed to the  GRB160131.35 5180 sec after notice time and 5180 sec after trigger time at 2016-01-31 09:46:52 UT. On our 48-th (60s exposure)  set we  found 1 optical transient within Swift error-box (ra=05 12 40 dec=-07 02 57 r=0.050000) brighter then 16.7.


 T-Tmid      Date      Time       Expt.        Ra                Dec           Mag
---------|---------------------|-------|-----------------|-----------------|-------
    5210   2016-01-31 09:46:52      60   (05h 12m 40.36s , -07d 02m 58.5s)    15.55

The 5-sigma upper limit has been about 16.7mag
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