GCN Circular 38227
Subject
GRB 241113A: PRIME near-infrared upper limits
Event
Date
2024-11-15T00:00:26Z (a year ago)
From
Joe Durbak at UMD <gcn.joedurbak@gmail.com>
Via
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J. Durbak (UMD), O. Guiffreda (UMD), A. S. Kutyrev (NASA/GSFC), E. Troja (U Rome), S. B. Cenko (NASA/GSFC)
Following the Swift BAT detection (GCN 38194), we observed the transient field in J and H filters with PRIME ~13 hours after Swift BAT detection.
At the counterpart positions reported by Swift XRT and UVOT and (GCN 38194, GCN 38198), LCOGT (GCN 38197), LCO (GCN 38201) and KAIT (GCN 38216), we detect no uncatalogued sources in J-band. Using nearby VISTA Hemispherical Survey (VHS) stars for preliminary calibration we derive a limiting magnitude of <20.4 AB. We also detect no uncatalogued sources in H-band. Using nearby 2MASS stars for preliminary calibration we derive a limiting magnitude of <20.6 AB. Neither of these results are corrected for Galactic extinction.
PRIME is a 1.8m telescope with 1.56 square degree FOV (0.5 arcsec/pixel) located in Sutherland, South Africa at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) (Kutyrev et al. 2023, Yama et al. 2023, Durbak et al. 2024).
We thank the Osaka University observers at PRIME and the staff at SAAO for their support with these observations.