TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 14157 SUBJECT: GRB 130131A - UKIRT afterglow candidate DATE: 13/01/31 16:23:37 GMT FROM: Nial Tanvir at U.Leicester N. R. Tanvir (U. Leicester), A. J. Levan (U. Warwick), T. Wold (JACH) report on behalf of a larger collaboration: We observed the field of GRB 130131A (Grupe et al. GCN 14166) with the WFCAM camera on UKIRT, beginning approximately 54 mins after the BAT trigger. Within the XRT error circle we detect a single, bright point source at position: 11 24 30.39 +48 04 33.3 (J2000, uncertainty ~0.5") Provisional Vega magnitudes (relative to a nearby 2MASS source) are K=16.4, J=19.4, indicating a rather red source. Further observations and analysis are ongoing.