[AAVSO-HEN] ATCA radio upper limit on GRB 080723B

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TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  8013
SUBJECT: ATCA radio upper limit on  GRB 080723B
DATE:    08/07/25 02:06:42 GMT
FROM:    Poonam Chandra at U Virginia/NRAO  <pc8s at virginia.edu>

Mark H. Wieringa (CSIRO), Poonam Chandra (NRAO/UVA) and Dale A. Frail
(NRAO) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:

"We observed a region centered on the bright INTEGRAL-  and
Super-AGILE-detected GRB 080723B (GCN 8002 and 8003) using the Australia
Telescope Compact Array starting at July 23.97 UT and ending at
July 24.13 UT. No radio emission was seen at 8 GHz frequency band
within the XRT error circle (GCN 8008). The flux upper limit at XRT
position is 170 uJy (rms 67 uJy).

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