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GCN Circular 28760

Subject
Swift GRB201024A: Global MASTER-Net OT detection
Date
2020-10-24T03:09:25Z (4 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
V. Lipunov, N.Tyurina, E. Gorbovskoy, V.Kornilov, P.Balanutsa,
A.Kuznetsov, F.Balakin, V.Vladimirov, D. Vlasenko, I.Gorbunov,
D.Zimnukhov, V.Senik, T.Pogrosheva, D.Kuvshinov,  D. Cheryasov
(Lomonosov Moscow State University, SAI, Physics Department),

R. Rebolo, M. Serra
(The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias),

D. Buckley
(South African Astronomical Observatory),

O.A. Gres, N.M. Budnev, O.Ershova
(Irkutsk State University, API),

R. Podesta, C.Lopez, F. Podesta, C.Francile
(Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar OAFA),


A. Tlatov, D. Dormidontov
(Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory),

V. Yurkov, A. Gabovich, Yu. Sergienko
(Blagoveschensk Educational State University)

MASTER-Tavrida robotic telescope (Global MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru, Lipunov et al., 2010, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2010, 30L)
located in Russia (Lomonosov MSU, SAI Crimea astronomical station) was pointed to the Swift GRB201024A (trigger 1001514) 36 sec after notice
time and 66 sec after trigger time at 2020-10-24 02:51:20 UT.
On our first (10s exposure) set we  found 1 optical transient within Swift error-box (ra=125.95 dec=3.35444 r=0.05) brighter than  16.5.

  T-Tmid      Date      Time       Expt.        Ra                Dec         Mag
---------|---------------------|-------|-----------------|-----------------|-----
      229   2020-09-25 21:54:16     40   (08h 23m 48.58s,   +03d 21m 13.8s) 14.9

The 5-sigma upper limit has been about  17mag
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