GCN Circular 13911
Subject
GRB 121027A: nIR afterglow candidate with AAT
Date
2012-10-27T20:11:13Z (12 years ago)
From
Rhaana Starling at U of Leicester <rlcs1@star.le.ac.uk>
R.L.C. Starling (U. Leicester), A.J. Levan (U. Warwick), K. Wiersema (U. Leicester), A.R. Lopez-Sanchez (AAO/Macquarie
+University), N.R. Tanvir (U. Leicester), T. Young (ANU), L. Spitler (Macquarie University/AAO) and S. Lee (AAO) report:
We triggered near-infrared observations with IRIS2 on the Anglo-Australian Telescope for GRB 121027A, beginning ~3.5 hours
+after the Swift BAT trigger (Evans et al. GCN Circ. 13907).
The field was observed for 2x10 minutes in each of J, H and K bands. In a preliminary analysis of the K band data (beginning
+13:49 UT) we clearly detect a source within the enhanced XRT error circle (www.swift.ac.uk/sper/536831) at position:
RA 04 14 23.44
Dec -58 49 47.4 (J2000)
with approximate magnitude K(AB)=21.10 +/- 0.13.
The source is not discernable from the J and H band images. These, however, do not go as deep owing to variable weather
+conditions; the limiting magnitude in H(AB) is 21.3 (3-sigma, beginning 13:22 UT).
These data were obtained under programme AAT/12B/30.
[GCN OPS NOTE(28oct12): Per author's request, ALG was changed to ARL-S in the author list.]