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GCN Circular 30973

Subject
GRB 211023B: RATIR Optical and NIR Upper Limits
Date
2021-10-24T14:34:57Z (3 years ago)
From
Alan M Watson at UNAM <alan@astro.unam.mx>
Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Nat Butler (ASU), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC), William H.
Lee (UNAM), Eleonora Troja (GSFC), Michael G. Richer (UNAM), Ori Fox (STScI), J.
Xavier Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), Jes��s
Gonz��lez (UNAM), Carlos Rom��n-Z����iga (UNAM), Harvey Moseley (GSFC), Rosa L.
Becerra (UNAM), Simone Dichiara (UMD), and Oc��lotl L��pez (UNAM) report:

We observed the field of GRB 211023B (Dichiara et al., GCN 30960) with the
Reionization and Transients Infrared Camera (RATIR) on the 1.5m Harold Johnson
Telescope at the Observatorio Astron��mico Nacional on Sierra San Pedro M��rtir
from 2021/10 24.49 to 2021/10 24.53 UTC (14.54 to 15.54 hours after the BAT
trigger), obtaining a total of 0.73 hours exposure in the r and i bands and 0.30
hours exposure in the Z, Y, J, and H bands.

For a source within the UVOT error circle, in comparison with the SDSS DR9 and
2MASS catalogs, we obtain the following detections and upper limits (3-sigma):

  r	> 22.4
  i	> 22.1
  Z	> 20.6
  Y	> 20.3
  J	> 21.0
  H	> 20.7

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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