ATels describing our search for the optical counterpart and monitoring of the field are here and here.

We thank the pupils and teachers of West Monmouth School, Wales and Freeport School District, New York, for observing XTE J1728-295 on 8th and 30th September, respectively.

Finder charts below

Top: Faulkes I-band finding chart during quiescence (combined 400 sec image from 2011-06-19 and 2010-06-24) with 0.6 arcsec Chandra error circle.

Bottom: Faulkes I-band finding chart during outburst (combined 920 sec image from 2010-09-01 and 2010-09-02) with 0.6 arcsec Chandra error circle.

Optical light curves of stars close to the Chandra position (ATel #2869).

Star 3 lies within the Chandra error circle.

The RXTE PCA Bulge Scan light curve is here and the Swift BAT light curve is here. Faulkes I-band finding chart (30×30 arcsec field of view, combined 920 sec image from 2010-09-01 and 2010-09-02) with 3.5 arcsec XRT error circle.

Larger field of view I-band image from 2010-09-01 (left), with DSS red image (right)

Faulkes R-band (left; combined 400 sec image from 2010-09-01 and 2010-09-02) and V-band (right; 200 sec image from 2010-09-02)

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