[vsnet-grb-info 13104] GRB 130420A: Continued RATIR Optical and NIR Observations

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  14441
SUBJECT: GRB 130420A: Continued RATIR Optical and NIR Observations
DATE:    13/04/25 01:25:12 GMT
FROM:    Alan M. Watson at Instituto de Astronomia UNAM  <alan at astro.unam.mx>

Nat Butler (ASU), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC),
William H. Lee (UNAM), Michael G. Richer (UNAM), Chris Klein (UCB), Ori
Fox (UCB) J. Xavier Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB), Antonino
Cucchiara (UCSC), Eleonora Troja (GSFC), Owen Littlejohns (ASU), Enrico
Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), José A. de Diego (UNAM), Leonid Georgiev (UNAM),
Jesús González (UNAM), Carlos Román-Zúñiga (UNAM), Neil Gehrels (GSFC),
and Harvey Moseley (GSFC) report:

We again observed the field of GRB 130420A (Page et al., GCN Circular
14406) with the Reionization and Transients Infrared Camera (RATIR;
www.ratir.org) on the 1.5m Harold Johnson Telescope at the Observatorio
Astronómico Nacional on Sierra San Pedro Mártir from 2013/04 24.26 to
2013/04 24.46 UTC (94.73 to 99.64 hours after the BAT trigger),
obtaining a total of 2.84 hours exposure in the r' and i' bands and 1.19
hours exposure in the Z, Y, J, and H bands.

For a source within the Swift-XRT error circle, in comparison with SDSS
DR8 and 2MASS, we obtain the following upper limits (3-sigma) in the AB
magnitude system:

r'	> 23.15
i'	> 23.02
Z	> 21.75
Y	> 21.44
J	> 21.72
H	> 21.16

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

In comparison with our earlier observations (Watson et al., GCN Circular
14409; Butler et al., GCN Circular 14431; Watson et al., GCN Circular
14439), the source has faded by about at least a magnitude in r' and i'
between about 50 and about 97 hours.

We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional in San Pedro
Mártir.