GCN Circular 5152
Subject
GRB 060522: REM NIR observations
Date
2006-05-22T10:20:41Z (18 years ago)
From
Stefano Covino at Brera Astronomical Observatory <stefano.covino@brera.inaf.it>
S. Vergani, P. D'Avanzo, S.Covino, E. Molinari, G. Chincarini, F.M.
Zerbi, V. Testa, G. Tosti, F. Vitali, P. Conconi, L.A. Antonelli,
G. Cutispoto, G. Malaspina, L. Nicastro, E. Palazzi, E. Meurs, and
P. Goldoni report on behalf of the REM/ROSS team:
We imaged the field of GRB 060522 (Fox et al., GCN 5150) with the
robotic 60-cm REM telescope located at La Silla (Chile) under
mediocre weather conditions. A first set of observations was
performed automatically in the near infrared (J, H, K, z bands)
starting on May 22.2306 UT (about 3.3 hours after the burst). Then,
we took a set of 20x100s H band images starting on May 22.2785 UT
(about 4.5 hours the burst).
Preliminary analysis of both the datasets does not show any new
source down to H = 16.5 and H=17.0 (3-sigma upper limits)
respectively, at the position of the candidate optical afterglow
reported by Fox et al. (GCN 5150) and D'Avanzo et al. (GCN 5151).
This message is citeable.
[GCN OPS NOTE(24may06): Per author's request, Antonelli was added
to the author list.]