TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 24954 SUBJECT: GRB190701A: No candidates/counterpart in optical follow-up from GROWTH-India Telescope DATE: 19/07/01 22:13:43 GMT FROM: Harsh Kumar at Indian Inst of Tech,Bombay H. Kumar, V. Karambelkar, K. Deshmukh, G. Waratkar, V. Bhalerao (IITB), G. C. Anupama, T. Stanzin (IIA) report on behalf of the GROWTH collaboration: We observed GRB190701A reported by T. N. Ukwatta et al, (GCN 24934) with 0.7m GROWTH-India telescope. The field was observed in g, r and i filters. We didn’t detect any new source within an uncertainty region of 1.9 arcseconds (radius, 90% containment) around RA(J2000) = 01h 52m 19.54s, Dec(J2000) = +58d 54' 33.9" (J.P. Osborne et al, GCN 24940). We obtained the following upper limits: ------------------------------------------------------------------ JD(Start)| Exposure(sec) | Filter | lim_Mag | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2458666.351 | 600 | g | 19.18| 2458666.373 | 600 | r | 20.57| 2458666.382 | 600 | i | 19.52| ------------------------------------------------------------------ The GROWTH India Telescope (GIT) is a 70-cm telescope with a 0.7 degree field of view, set up by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay with support from the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India (https://sites.google.com/view/growthindia/). It is located at the Indian Astronomical Observatory (Hanle), operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA).