GCN Circular 7345
Subject
GRB 080229: TNG NIR observations
Event
Date
2008-03-01T08:00:00Z (18 years ago)
From
Paolo D'Avanzo at INAF-OAB <paolo.davanzo@brera.inaf.it>
P. D'Avanzo, C. Guidorzi (INAF-OAB) on behalf of the CIBO collaboration
and G. Andreuzzi and Noemi Pinilla Alonso (FGG-INAF, TNG) report:
We observed the field of the GRB 080229 (Cannizzo et al., GCN 7335) with
the Italian 3.6m TNG telescope located at Canary Islands on March 01.259
UT (about 13.1 hours after the burst). Observations have been carried
out with the NICS NIR camera in imaging mode under good (1.1") seeing
conditions.
We do not detect any afterglow candidate inside the enhanced XRT error
box (Beardmore et al., GCN 7343) down to the following limiting
magnitudes (3sigma c.l., calibrated against the 2MASS catalog):
J > 20.9
H > 20.1
K > 19.5