GCN Circular 4540
Subject
GRB 060116: UKIRT IR Observations
Event
Date
2006-01-18T04:20:13Z (20 years ago)
From
Daniel Kocevski at UC Berkeley <kocevski@berkeley.edu>
D. Kocevski, J. S. Bloom (UC Berkeley), and E. J. McGrath (UH
Institute for Astronomy) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
"Repeat imaging of the field of GRB060116 with the United Kingdom
Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT) at Mauna Kea begining at 07:28:37.44 UTC
on Jan 17th shows that the IR source reported by Kocevski et. al.
(GCN 4528) is no longer detected in our images. These observations
are consistent with the results reported by Malesani et. al. (GCN
4532) and confirms the variability of the source in the J band. An
image of the source and it's subtraction from the Jan 17th data can
be found at: http://spacibm.rice.edu/~kocevski/sub.jpg"
Daniel Kocevski
kocevski@berkeley.edu
www.kocevski.com
Astrophysics, UC Berkeley
832.423.5881