[vsnet-grb-info 13329] GRB 130514B: RATIR Optical and NIR Observations

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  14665
SUBJECT: GRB 130514B: RATIR Optical and NIR Observations 
DATE:    13/05/15 19:03:13 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 observed the field of GRB 130514B (Mereghetti, et al., GCN 14638)
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 2013/05 15.15 to
2013/05 15.16 UTC (14.12 to 14.55 hours after the BAT trigger),
obtaining a total of 0.20 hours exposure in the r' and i' bands and 0.08
hours exposure in the Z, Y, J, and H bands.

For a source within the Swift-XRT error circle (Zhang et al., GCN
Circular 14651), in comparison with USNO-B1 and 2MASS, we obtain the
following upper limits (3-sigma):

 r'	> 22.49
 i'	> 21.95
 Z	> 20.53
 Y	> 20.54
 J	> 19.66
 H	> 19.72

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

Our non-detection is consistent with the deeper upper limits of Schmidl
et al. (GCN Circular, 14657) obtained a few hours earlier.

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