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GCN Circular 8568

Subject
GRB 081126: GRT Optical Observation
Date
2008-11-27T18:37:17Z (16 years ago)
From
Takanori Sakamoto at NASA/GSFC <takanori.sakamoto-1@nasa.gov>
T. Sakamoto (UMBC/GSFC), Y. Urata (Saitama U), D. Donato (ORAU/GSFC), 
N. Gehrels (GSFC), T. Okajima (JHU/GSFC), T. N. Ukwatta (GWU/GSFC) 

We observed the field of GRB 081126 detected by Swift (trigger #335647)
with the 14-inch Goddard Robotic Telescope (GRT) located at the 
Goddard Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory 
(http://cddisa.gsfc.nasa.gov/ggao/).  

Five set of 30s and 60s exposures were taken in the R filter starting 
from Nov. 27 03:58:18 (UT).  We do not detect any OT at the XRT 
position (Osborne et al. 2008 GCNC 8556).  The estimated 3-sigma 
upper limit of the combined image is ~17.5 mag using the USNO-B (r) catalog.
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