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GCN Circular 27122

Subject
GRB 200216B: Mondy and AbAO optical upper limits
Date
2020-02-18T16:01:19Z (5 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
A. Pozanenko (IKI), S. Belkin (IKI),  E. Klunko (ISTP),  R. Ya. 
Inasaridze (AbAO), E. Mazaeva (IKI), A. Volnova (IKI),  I. Molotov 
(KIAM) report   on behalf of IKI-GRB-FuN:

We observed the field of  GRB 200216B (D'Avanzo et al.  GCN 27102; Fermi 
GBM team, GCN 27101) with AZT-33IK telescope of Sayan observatory 
(Mondy) starting on Feb. 16  (UT)  13:47:34 i.e. 15 minutes after GRB 
trigger. We also observed the GRB 200216B with AS-32 (0.7m) telescope of 
Abastumani Observatory starting on Feb. 16  (UT)  20:00:20.   We  do not 
detect any  object in the enhanced Swift-XRT position  (Goad et al.  GCN 
27106). In particular we do not detect possible IR-counterpart (Levan et 
al., GCN 27114). Preliminary photometry of the field  is following.

Date       UT start   t-T0       Filter Exp.    OT       UL(3sigma)
                       (mid, days)        (s)

2020-02-16 13:47:34   0.06915     R     30*60   n/d      22.0
2020-02-16 20:00:20   0.29256     R     67*60   n/d      21.8

Photometry is based on the USNO-B2.0 nearby stars.

We note the presense  the optical object at coordinates (J2000) 
10:41:44.54 +19:28:19.3 and brightess of R=21.75 +/- 0.25 at 0.06915 
days (mid time) after triger, and do not detect the object in the secod 
epoch R > 21.8 at 0.29256 days. The object is absent in both SDSS ans 
Pan-SARRS catalogues. The object is apart 14.5 arcsec from center of 
enhanced XRT erro circle (Goad et al.  GCN 27106) and the object lies 
within 90% BAT  ground-calculated position (Krimm  et al., GCN 27117).
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