Las Campanas Follow-up of SPIRITS14beq
ATel #6741; S. Tinyanont (Harvey Mudd College), M. Phillips, E. Hsiao, N. Morrell, Carlos Contreras, C. Gonzalez (LCO), M. M. Kasliwal (Carnegie/Princeton) reports on behalf of the SPIRITS team
on 24 Nov 2014; 07:39 UT
Credential Certification: Mansi Manoj Kasliwal (mansi@astro.caltech.edu)
Subjects: Infra-Red, Optical, Nova, Supernovae, Transient, Variables
On 2014-09-09, 13 days after Spitzer discovery, we obtained near-infrared imaging of SPIRITS14beq in IC5152 (ATel#6644) with Retrocam on the Dupont 100-inch telescope. We do not detect a point source, with a 5-sigma limit of 19.8 mag in H-band and 20.1 mag in J-band. Fitting a blackbody to the Spitzer, Retrocam and SALT data (ATel#6740), we estimate an effective temperature of 2000 K but with 7 mag of visual extinction.
