FRB180301: Xinglong GWAC_F60 optical upper limit
ATel #11438; Liping Xin(NAOC, China), Jing Wang(NAOC, China), Jianyan Wei(NAOC, China)
on 17 Mar 2018; 00:42 UT
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Credential Certification: Liping Xin (xlp@nao.cas.cn)
Subjects: Optical, Transient, Fast Radio Burst
The optical follow-up observations of FRB 180301 (Price et al., ATel #11376) by GWAC_F60 telescope were made during 12:02:25 and 13:17:40 UT, Mar. 2, 2018, about 28.5 hours after the burst. GWAC_F60 is a 60cm optical telescope and is located at Xinglong observatory, China. This telescope is operated by GuangXi university and National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, and dedicated to observe the optical counterparts of short duration astronomical transients, like GRB, FRB, GW. The weather was not good during the observations. Due to the small FoV of about 9 arcmin for GWAC-F60, a mapping of 9 fields was applied in order to cover the whole 1 sigma error circle of this burst. No any new source is detected in the stacked images. The 5 sigma upper limit is estimated to be about R~16.7 mag, calibrated by the USNO B1.0 R2 magnitude.
