[AAVSO-HEN] No radio detection from the short GRB 080702A

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TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  7934
SUBJECT: No radio detection from the short  GRB 080702A
DATE:    08/07/03 14:34:32 GMT
FROM:    Poonam Chandra at U Virginia/NRAO  <pc8s at virginia.edu>

Poonam Chandra (NRAO/UVA) and Dale A. Frail (NRAO) report on
behalf of the Caltech-NRAO-Carnegie GRB Collaboration:

"We used the Very Large Array to observe the field of view toward GRB
080702A (GCN 7920) at a frequency of 8.46 GHz on 2008 July 03.33 UT.
The GRB radio afterglow is undetected and the peak radio flux at the
XRT afterglow position (GCN 7923) is -22 ± 52 uJy.

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