GCN Circular 23172
Subject
GRB 180823A: RATIR Optical and NIR Observations
Date
2018-08-24T14:46:19Z (6 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 (U. Wash.), and Vicki Toy (UMD) report:
We observed the field of GRB 180823A (Sbarufatti, et al., GCN 23169) 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 2018/08 24.14 to 2018/08 24.19 UTC (8.40 to
9.45 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining a total of 0.40 hours exposure
in the r and i bands and 0.29 hours exposure in the Z, Y, J, and H bands.
For a source within the Swift-XRT error circle (Evans, et al., GCN 23170),
in comparison with the SDSS DR9 and 2MASS catalogs, we obtain the following
upper limits (3-sigma):
r > 22.20
i > 22.05
Z > 20.84
Y > 19.72
J > 20.45
H > 19.12
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.