GCN Circular 101
Subject
GRB980613 Near Infra-Red Observations
Date
1998-06-14T05:15:09Z (26 years ago)
From
Richard McMahon at Inst.Astonomy, U Cambridge <rgm@ast.cam.ac.uk>
R. G. McMahon, M.G. Beckett, M. Hoenig, G. Gilmore and R. Wyse
report, on behalf of the CIRSI GRB team.
On June 13th, between UT 21:16 and 22:19, we observed the BeppoSax error
box of the Gamma Ray Burst GRB980613 (GCNC#99) in the near-IR, H band with
the Isaac Newton Telescope, on LaPalma, using the Cambridge Infra-Red
Survey Instrument.
Our H band image covers a field of view of 7.8arcmin x 7.8arcmin with
spatial resolution of around 1 arcsec. The image is not photometrically
calibrated yet.
Comparison with the DSS optical image reveals no obvious candidate
for a near-IR counterpart to GRB980613. We plan to reobserve the field
again on subsequent nights.
This image is available, for comparison with future observations, at
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~optics/cirsi/grb/. Calibration information
will be added in due course.
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