GCN Circular 18096
Subject
GRB 150728A: RATIR Optical Observations
Date
2015-07-29T20:07:03Z (9 years ago)
From
Alan M. Watson at Instituto de Astronomia UNAM <alan@astro.unam.mx>
Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Nat Butler (ASU), 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 150728A (Krimm et al., GCN 18087) 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 2015/07 29.19 to 2015/07 29.48 UTC (15.73 to
22.75 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining a total of 5.29 hours
exposure in the r, i, and z bands.
The brightest source within the enhanced Swift/XRT error circle (Beardmore
et al., GCN 18088) is the cataloged source 2MASS 19285425+3354576, for
which we determine a position of 19:28:54.26 +33:54:57.6 (J2000, �0.5")
and magnitudes:
r 16.71 � 0.02
i 16.49 � 0.01
z 16.14 � 0.04
We detect two other uncataloged sources on the edge of the error circle.
For source A we determine a position of 19:28:54.80 +33:54:58.2 (J2000,
�0.5") and magnitudes:
r 21.37 � 0.04
i 20.89 � 0.04
z 19.54 � 0.13
and for source B we determine 19:28:54.25 +33:55:2.6 (J2000, �0.5") and:
r 21.11 � 0.04
i 20.73 � 0.03
z 20.21 � 0.21
These magnitudes are in comparison with the USNO-B1 and 2MASS catalogs,
are in the AB system, and are not corrected for Galactic extinction in the
direction of the GRB.
Our source A appears to correspond to the source reported by Dichiara et
al. (GCN 18090). If this association is correct, then there is little
evidence for fading between about 1 hour and 16-23 hours.
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astron�mico Nacional in San Pedro
M�rtir.