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GCN Circular 5976

Subject
GRB 061222A: Xinglong Optical Limit
Date
2006-12-23T19:36:16Z (18 years ago)
From
W.K. Zheng at NAOC <zwk@bao.ac.cn>
M.Zhai, L.P. Xin, Y.L. Qiu, J.Y. Wei, J.Y. Hu, J.S. Deng and W.K. Zheng
on behalf of EAFON report:

We have imaged the field of GRB 061222A with the 2.16m telescope at
Xinglong Observatory. A 30 minutes R band image is obtained 9.97 hours
after the burst.The afterglow candidate (S.B. Cenko et al., GCN5975)
was not detected and no new source was seen with 3-simga limit magnitude
R~22.4 derived from USNO B1.0

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