GCN Circular 16568

Subject

GRB 140710A: RATIR Optical and NIR Observations

Event

Date

2014-07-10T14:37:42Z (11 years ago)

From

Nat Butler at Az State U <natbutler@asu.edu>

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), Owen Littlejohns (ASU), Enrico
Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), Jos�� A. de Diego (UNAM), Leonid Georgiev (UNAM), Jes��s
Gonz��lez (UNAM), Carlos Rom��n-Z����iga (UNAM), Neil Gehrels (GSFC), and
Harvey Moseley (GSFC) report:

We observed the field of GRB 140710A (Siegel, et al., GCN 16563Loading...
 
 ) with the
Reionization and Transients Infrared Camera (RATIR; www.ratir.org) on the
1.5m Harold Johnson Telescope at the Observatorio Astron��mico Nacional on
Sierra San Pedro M��rtir from 2014/07 10.43 to 2014/07 10.47 UTC (3.6
minutes to 1.12 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining a total of 0.71
hours exposure in the r and i bands and 0.30 hours exposure in the Z, Y, J,
and H bands.

For a source within the Swift-XRT error circle (see also, Castro-Tirado, et
al., GCN 16564Loading...
 
 ; Tanga, et al., GCN 16565Loading...
 
 ), in comparison with 2MASS, we
obtain the following detections:

  r     21.36 +/- 0.08
  i     21.10 +/- 0.07
  Z     20.77 +/- 0.14
  Y     20.42 +/- 0.16
  J     20.31 +/- 0.14
  H     19.75 +/- 0.13

These magnitudes are in the AB system and are not corrected for Galactic
extinction in the direction of the GRB.  The source appears to fade in all
bands.

We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astron��mico Nacional in San Pedro
M��rtir.