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GCN Circular 19779

Subject
GRB 160804A: RATIR Optical and NIR Observations
Date
2016-08-05T17:40:09Z (8 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), Ori Fox (STScI), J.
Xavier Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB), Antonino Cucchiara
(GSFC/STScI), 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),
Harvey Moseley (GSFC), John Capone (UMD), V. Zach Golkhou (ASU), and
Vicki Toy (UMD) report:

We observed the field of GRB 160804A (Marshall et al., GCN Circular
19761) 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 2016/08 5.16 to
2016/08 5.27 UTC (26.33 to 29.04 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining
a total of 1.78 hours exposure in the r and i bands and 0.75 hours
exposure in the Z, Y, J, and H bands.

We detect a source coincident with Swift/UVOT source (Breeveld et al.,
GCN Circular 19764) with the following magnitudes and 3-sigma upper
limit:

  r = 21.29 +/- 0.02
  i = 20.90 +/- 0.02
  Z = 21.12 +/- 0.19 
  Y = 21.04 +/- 0.29 
  J = 20.52 +/- 0.23 
  H > 20.51

These magnitudes are in the AB system and are not corrected for Galactic
extinction in the direction of the GRB.

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