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GCN Circular 15436

Subject

GRB 131030A: Continued RATIR Optical and NIR Observations

Date

2013-11-01T19:26:33Z (11 years ago)

Edited On

2024-11-07T18:53:50Z (a month ago)

From

Owen Littlejohns at Az State U <olittlej@asu.edu>

Edited By

Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Leo P. Singer at NASA/GSFC <leo.p.singer@nasa.gov>

Owen Littlejohns (ASU), Nat Butler (ASU), Alan M. Watson (UNAM),
Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC), William H. Lee (UNAM), Michael G.
Richer (UNAM), Chris Klein (UCB), Ori Fox (UCB), J. Xavier
Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB), Antonino Cucchiara (ORAU/GSFC),
Eleonora Troja (GSFC), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), José A. de
Diego (UNAM), Leonid Georgiev (UNAM), Jesús González (UNAM),
Carlos Román-Zúñiga (UNAM), Neil Gehrels (GSFC), and Harvey
Moseley (GSFC) report:

We again observed the field of GRB 131030A (Troja, et al., GCN 15402Loading...
 
 ) with
the Reionization and Transients Infrared Camera (RATIR; www.ratir.org) on
the 1.5m Harold Johnson Telescope at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional
on Sierra San Pedro Mártir from 2013/11 1.08 to 2013/11 1.20 UTC (29.01 to
31.91 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining a total of 2.13 hours exposure
in the r and i bands and 0.88 hours exposure in the Z, Y, J, and H bands.

We continue to detect the uncatalogued source reported by UVOT (Troja et
al., GCN Circ. 15414Loading...
 
 ), at fainter magnitudes than the first epoch of RATIR
observations (Littlejohns et al., GCN Circ. 15420Loading...
 
 ). In comparison with the
SDSS DR9 and 2MASS, we obtain the following detections:

  r     20.73 +/- 0.03
  i     20.45 +/- 0.03
  Z     20.19 +/- 0.05
  Y     20.06 +/- 0.07
  J     20.07 +/- 0.08
  H     19.57 +/- 0.11

These magnitudes are in the AB system and are not corrected for Galactic
extinction in the direction of the GRB. In comparison with the first epoch
of
RATIR observations these magnitudes can be modelled with power-law
decays, with indices of approximately t^-1.1 for the r and i bands, t^-1.0
for
the Z, Y and J bands and t^-0.8 for the H band.


We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional in San Pedro
Mártir.