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GCN Circular 2657

Subject
GRB 040825: Optical observations
Date
2004-08-25T19:54:24Z (20 years ago)
From
Paul Price at IfA,UH <price@ifa.hawaii.edu>
P.A. Price (IfA, University of Hawaii) and R. McNaught (MSO) report:

We have observed the error circle of GRB 040825 with the SSO 40-inch
telescope.  We obtained a single 300 sec exposure in R band at 2004 Aug
25.778 UT (2.3 hours after the GRB), covering the entire error circle
apart from 1 arcmin on the extreme Eastern edge.  The limiting magnitude
of our image is R ~ 19.8 mag, from comparison with the USNO-A2.0
catalogue.

Upon manual comparison with the DSS2 F plate, we do not find any
afterglow candidate to the limiting magnitude of our image.

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