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GCN Circular 19993

Subject

GRB 161004A: RATIR Optical and NIR Observations

Date

2016-10-05T12:32:05Z (8 years ago)

Edited On

2024-11-07T19:42:21Z (4 months ago)

From

Eleonora Troja at GSFC <eleonora.troja@nasa.gov>

Edited By

Vidushi Sharma at NASA GSFC/UMBC <vidushi.sharma@nasa.gov> on behalf of Leo P. Singer at NASA/GSFC <leo.p.singer@nasa.gov>

Eleonora Troja (GSFC), Nat Butler (ASU), Alan M. Watson (UNAM),
Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC), William H. Lee (UNAM), Michael G. Richer
(UNAM), Ori Fox (STScI), J. Xavier Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB),
Antonino Cucchiara (UVI), Owen Littlejohns (ASU), Enrico
Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), José A. de Diego (UNAM), Leonid Georgiev
(UNAM), Jesús González (UNAM), Carlos Román-Zúñiga (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 161004A (Evans, et al., GCN 19979Loading...
 
 ) with 
the Reionization and Transients Infrared Camera (RATIR; www.ratir.org) 
on the 1.5m Harold Johnson Telescope at the Observatorio Astronómico 
Nacional on Sierra San Pedro Mártir from 2016/10 5.10 to 2016/10 5.22 
UTC (13.49 to 16.23 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining a total 
of 1.73 hours exposure in the r and i bands and 0.65 hours exposure in 
the Z, Y, J, and H bands.

For a source within the Swift-UVOT error circle (Breeveld & Evans, 
GCN 19984Loading...
 
 ), in comparison with the USNO-B1 and 2MASS catalogs, we 
obtain the following upper limits (3-sigma):

  r > 23.3
  i > 23.2
  Z > 22.4
  Y > 21.8
  J > 21.3
  H > 19.4

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 Astronómico Nacional in San Pedro
Mártir.