VizieR Online Data Catalog: 85 short GRB kilonovae opt. & NIR obs. (Rastinejad+, 2021)

We present optical and NIR observations of 85 bursts discovered from 2005 to 2020 in an updated catalog of short GRB observations that probe kilonova emission properties. We primarily draw from short GRBs (T90<~2s or classified by the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) catalog; Lien+ 2016, J/ApJ/829/7) detected by BAT on board Swift.

We draw optical and NIR observations from three sources: (i) unpublished observations that mainly comprise deep upper limits (Section 2.2), (ii) deep upper limits from GCN circulars (searched between 2013 and 2020) that have not been otherwise published in the literature (Section 2.3), and (iii) published observations (or reanalyses of published observations) of past short GRBs, some of which have also been included in previous samples (Section 2.4). Notably, this work introduces 55 unpublished observations and over 40 deep upper limits from GCNs. In total, we include observations of 85 bursts.

We obtained new observations of 23 bursts with the 8m twin Gemini-North and Gemini-South telescopes, the 6.5m MMT, the 6.5m Magellan/Baade and Clay telescopes, the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope (WHT), and the 3.8m United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT).

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