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GCN Circular 22130

Subject
GRB 171115A: RATIR Optical and NIR Observations
Date
2017-11-16T15:12:51Z (7 years ago)
From
Nat Butler at Az State U <natbutler@asu.edu>
Nat Butler (ASU), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC), William
H. Lee (UNAM), Michael G. Richer (UNAM), Ori Fox (STScI), J. Xavier
Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB), Antonino Cucchiara (UVI), Eleonora
Troja (GSFC), Owen Littlejohns (ASU), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), Jes��s
Gonz��lez (UNAM), Carlos Rom��n-Z����iga (UNAM), Harvey Moseley (GSFC), John
Capone (UMD), V. Zach Golkhou (U. Wash.), and Vicki Toy (UMD) report:

We observed the field of GRB 171115A (Sbarufatti, et al., GCN 22124) with
the Reionization and Transients Infrared Camera (RATIR; www.ratir.org) on
the 1.5m Harold Johnson Telescope at the Observatorio Astron��mico Nacional
on Sierra San Pedro M��rtir from 2017/11 16.08 to 2017/11 16.15 UTC (7.14 to
8.66 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining a total of 1.07 hours exposure
in the r and i bands and 0.38 hours exposure in the Z, Y, J, and H bands.

For a source within the Swift-XRT error circle (Beardmore, et al., GCN
22125), in comparison with the USNO-B1 and 2MASS catalogs, we obtain the
following upper limits (3-sigma):

 r > 23.05
 i > 23.19
 Z > 21.86
 Y > 21.66
 J > 21.13
 H > 20.71

These magnitudes are in the AB system and are not corrected for Galactic
extinction in the direction of the GRB.

We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astron��mico Nacional in San Pedro
M��rtir.
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