GCN Circular 16166
Subject
GRB 140423A: TNG NIR observations
Date
2014-04-24T13:35:25Z (11 years ago)
From
Stefano Covino at Brera Astronomical Observatory <stefano.covino@brera.inaf.it>
P. D'Avanzo, S. Covino, D. Malesani, A. Rossi, G. Tagliaferri, M. Pedani on behalf of the CIBO report:
We observed the field of GRB 140423A (Sonbas et al., GCN 16142) using the NICS
near-Infrared camera on the 3.6m TNG Telescope (La Palma, Canary Islands).
We obtained a series of imaging observations in the J, H and K' bands(16 minutes per filter)
at a mean epoch of 14.8 hours from the burst. The GRB afterglow is clearly detected in all bands.
The observed J-band magnitude is 19.7 +- 0.1 (calibrated against the 2MASS catalogue).
[GCN OPS REPORT(24apr14): Per author's request, MP was added to the author list.]