[vsnet-grb-info 15596] GRB 141005A: RATIR Optical Observations

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  16885
SUBJECT: GRB 141005A: RATIR Optical Observations
DATE:    14/10/05 07:29:03 GMT
FROM:    Owen Littlejohns at Az State U  <olittlej at asu.edu>

Owen Littlejohns (ASU), 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 (ORAU/GSFC), Eleonora Troja
(GSFC), 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 141005A (D'Elia, et al., GCN 16882) 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 2014/10 5.22 to 2014/10 5.27 UTC (0.05
to 1.34 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining a total of 1.07 hours
exposure in the r and i bands.

We note evidence of the source reported by P60 (Perley, et al., GCN 16884),
with marginal evidence for fading throughout the epoch of RATIR
observations.
Further analysis is ongoing.

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