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GCN Circular 4540

Subject

GRB 060116: UKIRT IR Observations

Date

2006-01-18T04:20:13Z (19 years ago)

From

Daniel Kocevski at UC Berkeley <kocevski@berkeley.edu>

D. Kocevski, J. S. Bloom (UC Berkeley), and E. J. McGrath (UH
Institute for Astronomy) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:

"Repeat imaging of the field of GRB060116 with the United Kingdom  
Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT) at Mauna Kea begining at 07:28:37.44 UTC  
on Jan 17th shows that the IR source reported by Kocevski et. al.  
(GCN 4528Not found
 
 
) is no longer detected in our images.  These observations  
are consistent with the results reported by Malesani et. al. (GCN  
4532Not found
 
 
) and confirms the variability of the source in the J band.  An  
image of the source and it's subtraction from the Jan 17th data can  
be found at: http://spacibm.rice.edu/~kocevski/sub.jpg"



Daniel Kocevski
kocevski@berkeley.edu
www.kocevski.com
Astrophysics, UC Berkeley
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