GCN Circular 5939
Subject
GRB061217: VLT NIR observations
Date
2006-12-18T16:49:47Z (18 years ago)
From
Paolo D'Avanzo at INAF-OAB <paolo.davanzo@brera.inaf.it>
P. D'Avanzo, S. Covino, G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OABr & Univ. Insubria) and
L. Stella (INAF-OAR) report on behalf of the MISTICI collaboration:
We performed a small set of short exposures with the VLT equipped with
the ISAAC camera on the field of the short GRB061217 (Barthelmy et al.,
GCN 5926). Our observations started on Dec 18.262 UT (about 1.1 d after
the burst). While we clearly detect the four point-like objects reported
by Cobb et al. (GCN 5935), we do not detect any candidate for the host
galaxy of GRB061217 inside or near the XRT error-box (Evans et al. GCN
5932) up to a limiting magnitude of H > 20.3 (3sigma level).
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[GCN OPS NOTE(21dec06): The typo in the next to last line "GRB061218"
was changed to "GRB061217".]