GCN Circular 7293
Subject
GRB 080207: VLT NIR early upper limits
Event
Date
2008-02-12T09:53:52Z (18 years ago)
From
Paolo D'Avanzo at INAF-OAB <paolo.davanzo@brera.inaf.it>
D. Fugazza (INAF-OAB), V. D'Elia (INAF-OAR), P. D'Avanzo, S. Covino and
G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB) report, on behalf of the MISTICI collaboration:
We observed the field of GRB 080207 (Racusin et al., GCN 7264) with the
Very Large Telescope equipped with the SINFONI near infrared camera in
imaging mode. Observations have been carried out on Feb 08.3673, i.e.
about 11.3 hours after the burst and about 2 hours after the REM
(D'Avanzo et al., GCN 7269) and GROND (Kuepcue Yoldas et al. GCN 7279)
NIR observations. We do not detect any afterglow candidate inside the
XRT error box (Beardmore et al., GCN 7265). We derive the following
3sigma upper limits (calibrated against standard stars taken the same
night):
J > 23.5
H > 22.8
K > 21.5
We acknowledge support from the ESO staff.