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GCN Circular 4630

Subject
GRB060202: Faulkes North observation
Date
2006-02-02T11:20:32Z (19 years ago)
From
Cristiano Guidorzi at ARI,Liverpool JMU <crg@astro.livjm.ac.uk>
A. Monfardini, C.G. Mundell, C. Guidorzi, I. A. Steele, A. Gomboc,
C.J. Mottram, R.J. Smith, D. Bersier, A. Melandri, S. Kobayashi,
D. Carter, M.F. Bode (Liverpool JMU), P. O'Brien, E. Rol, N. Bannister
(U. of Leicester) report:

"The 2-m Faulkes Telescope North robotically followed up GRB060202
(SWIFT trigger 179968) 4.2 min after the GRB trigger time.
We do not detect any obvious optical candidate within the
XRT error circle (Fox et al., GCN 4629).
Limiting magnitudes have been derived with reference to USNOB1."

Exposure  Filter  Start Time    End Time     Lim. Mag.
                  (since GRB)   (since GRB)    (5sig)
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3x10s     R       4.2 min          5.0 min      20.0
410 s     R       4.2 min         32.5 min      21.5
400 s     i'      7.7 min         36.2 min      20.5
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