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GCN Circular 33383

Subject
GRB 230228A: Mondy optical upper limit
Date
2023-02-28T19:12:56Z (2 years ago)
From
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S. Belkin (IKI, HSE), E. Klunko (ISTP), A. Pozanenko (IKI),  N. Pankov (HSE) report on behalf of GRB IKI FuN:

We observed the field of GRB 230228A (Dichiara et al., GCN 33378) with AZT-33 telescope of Mondy observatory starting on Feb. 28 (UT) 12:46:56. We do not detect any optical counterpart within the enhanced Swift/XRT error box (Beardmore et al., GCN 33382). Preliminary photometry of the field  is following

Date       UT start t-T0     Filter    Exp.    OT   Err  UL(3sigma)

2023-02-28 12:46:56 0.31053  R         30*120  n/d  n/d  21.1

The photometry is based on the nearby USNO-B1.0 stars R2  
RA DEC R2
01:13:35.3661600 +44:26:54.711600 15.50
01:13:18.4240800 +44:28:30.280800 16.70

The upper limit is not contradict observations reported earlier (Dichiara et al., GCN 33378; Lim et al., GCN 33380; Lu et al., GCN 33381).
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