SALT Follow-up of SPIRITS 14beq
ATel #6740; S. Mohamed (SAAO), P. Vaisanen (SAAO), D. Gilbank (SAAO), P. Kotze (SAAO), P. A. Whitelock (SAAO, UCT), H. E. Bond (PSU), R. Williams (STScI) on behalf of the SPIRITS team
on 24 Nov 2014; 07:31 UT
Credential Certification: Mansi Manoj Kasliwal (mansi@astro.caltech.edu)
Subjects: Infra-Red, Optical, Nova, Supernovae, Transient, Variables
Referred to by ATel #: 6741
On 2014 September 25, 30 days after Spitzer discovery, we imaged the infrared transient SPIRITS 14beq (Kasliwal et al. ATEL#6644) in IC 5152, just 15 arcsec off the dwarf galaxy core, with the 10-m SALT telescope. Combining the best three of several dithered 120 sec images in I-band with the SALTICAM instrument, no optical counterpart was detected at the very crowded source position in ~2 arcsec seeing to a limit of approximately I~19.7 (+/- 0.3) mag. Photometry was estimated on the basis of DENIS I-band magnitudes of surrounding stars and converted to the Cousins I-filter.
