GCN Circular 9213
Subject
GRB 090423: Correction to NIR photometry
Event
Date
2009-04-23T20:36:32Z (17 years ago)
From
Antonino Cucchiara at PSU <cucchiara@astro.psu.edu>
A. Cucchiara, D. B. Fox (PSU), and E. Berger (Harvard) report:
"Further analysis of our Gemini+NIRI H-band imaging (Cucchiara, Fox &
Berger, GCN 9209) has led to a significant correction in the H-band
magnitudes for the afterglow/host (Tanvir et al., GCN 9202) of GRB
090423 (Kimm et al., GCN 9198). Our revised magnitudes for this
object are:
J mag: 19.29 +- 0.07
H mag: 18.57 +- 0.07
The revision to the H-band magnitude, in addition to the absence of
any detection in our Y-band images, suggests a break in the spectrum
below or within the J-band and above the Y-band, yielding, e.g., 7<~z<~9
in a Lyman-alpha interpretation.
Further analysis is in progress and additional observations are planned.
We apologize for any inconvenience."