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Main results and publications


The GRB RTAS has led to the discovery of one strong afterglow candidate, which was called OT20050728.


The coordinates of OT20050728 are RA = 15:57:16.78 and DEC = -18:50:58.6.
The following table summarizes the magnitude of OT20050728 in our observations.

DateTime [SOD]FilterMagnitude
2005-06-1034244g'>23.35
2005-06-1222204g'>23.19
2005-07-2821849i'20.08
2005-07-2826054i'18.66
2005-07-2830330i'20.90
2005-07-2830631i'20.70
2005-07-2922204i'21.58

These 4 snapshots of OT20050728 correspond to observations indicated in boldface in the above table.
North is up and east is left. Each image is 45 arcsec wide.


Refered publications from the GRB RTAS:

Constraining the rate of GRB visible afterglows with the CFHTLS Very Wide Survey, Malacrino et al., 2007, A&A in press ADS link
The CFHTLS Real Time Analysis System: "Optically Selected GRB Afterglows". Overview and performance, Malacrino et al., 2006, A&A 469, 455 ADS link