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GCN Circular 15463

Subject

GRB 131030A: RATIR Optical and NIR Upper Limits

Date

2013-11-07T21:36:11Z (11 years ago)

Edited On

2024-11-07T19:56:33Z (4 months ago)

From

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

Edited By

Vidushi Sharma at NASA GSFC/UMBC <vidushi.sharma@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
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 ) 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 7.09 to 2013/11 7.33 UTC (173.34 to 178.87 hours after the
BAT trigger), obtaining a total of 3.40 hours exposure in the r
and i bands and 1.41 hours exposure in the Z, Y, J, and H bands.

For a source within the Swift-XRT error circle, in comparison
with the SDSS DR9 and 2MASS, we obtain the following upper limits
(3-sigma):

  r     > 23.52
  i     > 23.11
  Z     > 22.69
  Y     > 22.17
  J     > 21.87
  H     > 21.35

These magnitudes are in the AB system and are not corrected for
Galactic extinction in the direction of the GRB. The upper limits
obtained in the r and i bands are consistent with the reported
decay from previous epochs of RATIR observations (Littlejohns, et
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 ).

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

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