GCN Circular 46
Subject
GRB980329 near-IR observations
Date
1998-04-04T15:19:06Z (27 years ago)
From
Elena Pian at ITESRE-CNR, Bologna <pian@tesre.bo.cnr.it>
F. Mannucci, M. Salvati, P. Tozzi, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri,
Firenze, Italy, M. Di Martino, Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Italy,
E. Palazzi and E. Pian, Istituto di Tecnologie e Studio delle Radiazioni
Extraterrestri, CNR, Bologna, Italy, on behalf of a large collaboration
report:
On March 29.84-29.86 UT, the SAX-WFC error box of GRB980329 (IAUC 6853)
was imaged at the Gornergrat Infrared Telescope (TIRGO) with ARNICA + J
band filter. A preliminary analysis of the data shows that the galaxy
reported by Djorgovski et al. (GCNC #41) is detected at 2-sigma
significance with a magnitude J = 19.2 (+0.8,-0.5 at 1 sigma).