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GCN Circular 21472

Subject

GRB 170813A: RATIR Optical and NIR Observations

Date

2017-08-13T20:13:16Z (7 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), Ori Fox (STScI), J. Xavier
Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB), Antonino Cucchiara (UVI), Eleonora
Troja (GSFC), Owen Littlejohns (ASU), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), Jes��s
Gonz��lez (UNAM), Carlos Rom��n-Z����iga (UNAM), Harvey Moseley (GSFC), John
Capone (UMD), V. Zach Golkhou (ASU), and Vicki Toy (UMD) report:

We observed the field of GRB 170813A (Page, et al., GCN 21468Loading...
 
 ) 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 2017/08 13.15 to 2017/08 13.18 UTC (2.48 to
3.06 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining a total of 0.36 hours exposure
in the r and i bands and 0.15 hours exposure in the Z, Y, J, and H bands.

For a source within the Swift-XRT error circle (Osborne, et al., GCN
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 ), in comparison with the USNO-B1 and 2MASS catalogs, we obtain the
following upper limits (3-sigma):

  r > 22.46
  i > 22.08
  Z > 20.23
  Y > 19.82
  J > 19.38
  H > 19.13

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.