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GCN Circular 14389

Subject
GRB 130418A: REM NIR observations
Date
2013-04-19T05:37:23Z (12 years ago)
From
Stefano Covino at Brera Astronomical Observatory <stefano.covino@gmail.com>
S. Covino, D. Fugazza, V. d'Elia, on behalf of the REM team report:

We imaged the field of GRB130418A (De Pasquale et al., GCN 14377) with  
the
REM NIR camera equippe with the J, Hand Ks filters.

Observations started at 2013/04/18 23:12:37, i.e. about 4.2 hours after
the prompt event.
The optical counterpart detected by UVOT was well detected at  
H=15.7+-0.1
(preliminary calibration) at the beginning of our observations.
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