GCN Circular 3448
Subject
XRF050522: Near-infrared Observations
Event
Date
2005-05-22T12:20:19Z (20 years ago)
Edited On
2025-09-09T18:38:11Z (a month ago)
From
Derek Fox at CIT <derekfox@astro.caltech.edu>
Edited By
courey.elliott@gmail.com
Derek B. Fox, Dawn Erb, and Naveen Reddy (Caltech) report:
"We have observed the localization region of XRF050522 (Gotz et al.,
GCN 3446) with the Palomar Hale 5.0-m telescope and Wide-Field
Infrared Camera (WIRC), in a 30-minute series of exposures beginning
at 08:21 UT (mean epoch 02:36 after the burst).
We do not detect any bright new sources by comparison to 2MASS and
XDSS images of the region, and therefore estimate a limiting magnitude
for the afterglow of Ks > 17.2 mag at this time."