GCN Circular 7025
Subject
GRB 071031: REM NIR and Optical observation
Date
2007-10-31T06:17:40Z (17 years ago)
From
Angelo Antonelli at Obs. Astro. di Roma <a.antonelli@oa-roma.inaf.it>
L.A. Antonelli, S. Covino, P. D'Avanzo, D. Fugazza, L. Calzoletti, S.
Campana, G. Chincarini, M.L. Conciatore, S. Cutini, V. D'Elia, F.
Dalessio, F. Fiore, P. Goldoni, D. Guetta, C. Guidorzi, G.L. Israel,
N. Masetti, A. Melandri, E. Meurs, L. Nicastro, E. Palazzi, E. Pian, S.
Piranomonte, L. Stella, G. Stratta, G. Tagliaferri, G. Tosti, V.
Testa, S.D. Vergani, F. Vitali report on behalf of the REM team:
The robotic 60-cm REM telescope located at La Silla (Chile) observed
the field of the GRB 071031 (Stroh et al., GCN 7020). Observations was
performed automatically in the both optical (R, I) and NIR (Z, J, H, K)
filters
under poor seeing condition starting at 01:08:19 UT (about 46 sec
after the
alert and 102 sec after the burst ) .
A preliminary analysis of the first set of R-band and H-band exposures
does
not reveal the optical afterglow candidate reported by Stroh et al.,
(GCN 7020),
Kruehler et al. (GCN 7021) and Haislip et al. (GCN. 7022). We derive
the
following upper limits of R > 16.4 (calibrated against USNO B1catalog)
and
H > 13.8 (calibrated against the 2MASS catalog).
Futher analysis are in progress.