TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  46
SUBJECT: GRB980329 near-IR observations
DATE:    98/04/04 15:19:06 GMT
FROM:    Elena Pian at ITESRE-CNR, Bologna  <pian@tesre.bo.cnr.it>


F. Mannucci, M. Salvati, P. Tozzi, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri,
Firenze, Italy, M. Di Martino, Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Italy,
E. Palazzi and E. Pian, Istituto di Tecnologie e Studio delle Radiazioni
Extraterrestri, CNR, Bologna, Italy, on behalf of a large collaboration

report: 

On March 29.84-29.86 UT, the SAX-WFC error box of GRB980329 (IAUC 6853)
was imaged at the Gornergrat Infrared Telescope (TIRGO) with ARNICA + J
band filter.  A preliminary analysis of the data shows that the galaxy
reported by Djorgovski et al. (GCNC #41) is detected at 2-sigma
significance with a magnitude J = 19.2 (+0.8,-0.5 at 1 sigma).