TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 2819 SUBJECT: GRB 041016: Optical limits DATE: 04/10/17 08:14:58 GMT FROM: Ken ichi Torii at RIKEN K. Torii and Yuuichi Fukazawa (Osaka University) report: We have further analyzed the data reported in GCN #2813 and derived the following limits on the optical afterglow of GRB 041016 (HETE Trigger #3578). We made two pointings and obtained 12 x 300-s frames for each pointing. The 12 frames from each pointing was stacked to yield a single frame and compared with the USNO-A2.0 (R) catalog. We found no new source brighter than the limiting magnitude of each frame as given below. The first pointing (07:14 UT - 08:26 UT) was 24x24 arcmin field centered at (RA, Dec.) = (01 44 53, -04 17 12) (J2000). The limiting magnitude of the stacked frame was 18.4. The second pointing (08:36 UT - 09:48 UT) was 24x24 arcmin field centered at (RA, Dec.) = (01 44 48, -04 24 21) (J2000). The limiting magnitude of the stacked frame was 18.7. Starting at 11:54 UT on 2004 October 16, a part of the GRB 041016 error region was also observed at Osaka University with the 14-inch telescope and unfiltered CCD. We stacked the first 60 frames of 60-s exposure and compared it with the USNO-A2.0 (R) catalog. No new source brighter than 18.2 mag was found in the 25x25 arcmin field centered at (RA, Dec.) = (01 44 39, -04 12 13) (J2000). ===