[AAVSO-HEN] VLA radio upper limit on GRB 090205

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Sat Feb 7 09:58:03 EST 2009


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TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  8896
SUBJECT: VLA radio upper limit on GRB 090205
DATE:    09/02/07 14:57:15 GMT
FROM:    Poonam Chandra at U Virginia/NRAO  <pc8s at virginia.edu>

Poonam Chandra (RMC) 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 090205 (GCN 8884) at a frequency of 8.46 GHz on 2009 Jan 07.50
UT. The GRB radio afterglow is undetected at 3-sigma level. The
flux density at the VLT afterglow position (GCB 8887) is 21 ± 47 uJy.

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