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GCN Circular 4759

Subject
GRB060211B: REM optical and NIR observations
Date
2006-02-14T00:21:31Z (18 years ago)
From
Paul Ward at Dunsink Obs <pward@halley.dunsink.dias.ie>
P. Ward, L. A. Antonelli, E. Molinari, G. Chincarini, F.M. Zerbi, S.
Covino,
V. Testa, G. Tosti, F. Vitali, P. Conconi, G. Cutispoto, G. Malaspina,
L. Nicastro,
E. Palazzi, E. Meurs, P. Goldoni, on behalf of the REM/ROSS team,
report:


The field of GRB 060211B (Mateos et al. GCN 4739) was imaged by the REM
telescope located in La Silla (Chile).

The field was observed with the REMIR near infrared camera in the J, H,
K' filters and ROSS in the V, R, I filters, starting on Feb. 12, at 00:30
UT, approximately 8.5 hrs after the burst.

No sources are detected within the refined XRT error circle (Page et al.,
GCN 4745) down to the limiting magnitudes of J=16.4, H=16.2, K=13.9,
V=17.1, R=18.1, I=17.3 (3-sigma upper limits).

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