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MDM Observatory GRB Team


GRB 990806 - Digitized Sky Survey
WFC Error Circle (3' radius)

R-band image


GRB 990806: R-band CCD image from CTIO 0.9m
WFC (3' radius) and NFI (2' radius) Error Circles

R-band image


GCN Circular #395: GRB 990806 Optical Observations
J. Kemp, N. Mirabal, J. Halpern (Columbia), J. Parker (SwRI),
D. Harkavy (Harvard), E. Costa, & L. Piro (IAS/CNR, Frascati) 
report on behalf of the BeppoSAX team and the MDM Observatory 
GRB follow-up team's southern extension:

"We imaged the BeppoSAX WFC error circle of GRB 990806 (Piro GCN 392)
starting on Aug. 7.19 UT using the CTIO 4m and 0.9m telescopes.
In a 5 minute V-band exposure on the 4m, no new object brighter
than the limit of the various sky survey plates is seen.  The same 
is true of a series of ten 10 minute R-band images obtained on the
0.9m between Aug. 7.21 and 7.42 UT.  No variable object is seen,
and the 5-sigma limiting magnitude of the summed R-band image is 23.0. 

Photometric calibration was obtained using the Landolt standard
field of PG 2213-006.  For possible future reference, we give
recalibrated magnitudes of several stars from the USNO-A2.0 catalog:

Star        RA(2000)     Dec(2000)   R(USNO)  R(CTIO) 
-----------------------------------------------------
A        03 10 19.577  -68 09 52.08   16.7    16.83
B        03 10 21.996  -68 05 31.11   16.1    16.09
C        03 10 32.916  -68 04 17.54   16.8    17.07
D        03 10 37.871  -68 07 44.91   17.0    17.15
E        03 10 41.537  -68 06 19.68   16.6    16.50
F        03 10 52.539  -68 06 30.05   15.7    15.58
G        03 10 57.979  -68 05 01.92   16.2    16.33
-----------------------------------------------------

A finding chart for these stars and a CCD image are posted at

http://www.astro.bio2.edu/grb/

This message may be cited."

Jonathan Kemp
jonathan@astro.bio2.edu
Nestor Mirabal
abulafia@astro.columbia.edu
Jules Halpern
jules@astro.columbia.edu
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