{
  "bibcode": "2008GCN..8126....1T",
  "body": "N. R. Tanvir (U. Leicester), W. Varricatt (JACH) report on behalf of a\nlarger collaboration:\n\nWe observed the field of SGR 0501+4516 with UKIRT/UFTI about 2 hours\nafter the first BAT trigger (Holland et al. GCN 8112).  We clearly\ndetect a faint point source in the K-band image within the XRT error\ncircle, at a position, relative to 2MASS stars in the field, of:\n\n 05:01:06.75 +45:16:34.0 (J2000)\n\nwith an uncertainty of about 0.5 arcsec.  The magnitude of the source\nis K~18.6 (also calibrated to 2MASS) and there is tentative evidence of\nvariability at the 0.2 mag level between sub-exposures, supporting the\npossibility that it is the nIR counterpart to the SGR.\n\nFurther analysis is ongoing.",
  "circularId": 8126,
  "createdOn": 1219515774000,
  "email": "nrt@ast.cam.ac.uk",
  "subject": "SGR 0501+4516: UKIRT detection of possible infra-red counterpart",
  "submitter": "Nial Tanvir at IofA U.Cambridge  <nrt@ast.cam.ac.uk>",
  "eventId": "SGR 0501+4516"
}