{
  "bibcode": "2014GCN.16236....1B",
  "body": "Nat Butler (ASU), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC), William\nH. Lee (UNAM), Michael G. Richer (UNAM), Chris Klein (UCB), Ori Fox (UCB),\nJ. Xavier Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB), Antonino Cucchiara\n(ORAU/GSFC), Eleonora Troja (GSFC), Owen Littlejohns (ASU), Enrico\nRamirez-Ruiz (UCSC), Jos�� A. de Diego (UNAM), Leonid Georgiev (UNAM), Jes��s\nGonz��lez (UNAM), Carlos Rom��n-Z����iga (UNAM), Neil Gehrels (GSFC), and\nHarvey Moseley (GSFC) report:\n\nWe observed the field of GRB 140508A (Yu, et al., GCN 16224) with the\nReionization and Transients Infrared Camera (RATIR; www.ratir.org) on the\n1.5m Harold Johnson Telescope at the Observatorio Astron��mico Nacional on\nSierra San Pedro M��rtir from 2014/05 9.19 to 2014/05 9.46 UTC (25.61 to\n32.04 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining a total of 4.27 hours\nexposure in the r and i bands and 1.79 hours exposure in the Z, Y, J, and H\nbands.\n\nFor a source positionally coincident with the iPTF optical transient\n(Singer, et al. , GCN 16226), in comparison with the SDSS DR9 and 2MASS, we\nobtain the following detections:\n\n  r     19.65 +/- 0.02\n  i     19.52 +/- 0.02\n  Z     19.36 +/- 0.03\n  Y     19.20 +/- 0.03\n  J     19.18 +/- 0.03\n  H     18.98 +/- 0.03\n\nThese magnitudes are in the AB system and are not corrected for Galactic\nextinction in the direction of the GRB.  The source fades in time\napproximately as t^(-1.5) in all bands during our observation.\n\nWe thank the staff of the Observatorio Astron��mico Nacional in San Pedro\nM��rtir.",
  "circularId": 16236,
  "createdOn": 1399646097000,
  "email": "natbutler@asu.edu",
  "subject": "GRB 140508A: RATIR Optical and NIR Observations",
  "submitter": "Nat Butler at Az State U  <natbutler@asu.edu>",
  "eventId": "GRB 140508A"
}