TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT NUMBER: 1174 SUBJECT: XRF011130: Infrared Observations DATE: 01/12/05 00:31:50 GMT FROM: Derek Fox at CIT D. W. Fox and P. A. Price (Caltech), with S. S. Eikenberry (Cornell), report on behalf of a larger collaboration: "We observed the HETE-II error circle for XRF011130 (GCN 1169) with the Palomar Hale Telescope + Wide-Field Infrared Camera during an instrument commissioning run on December 1.39 UT. Preliminary reduction of a subset of the data covering the location of the VLA source at RA 03:05:24.71, Dec +3:46:13.1 (J2000; uncertainties 1.1" in each coordinate; see GCN 1173) reveals no K'-band counterpart to a limit of roughly K'=18.5 mag. We note also the absence of any optical counterpart to the VLA source in archival DPOSS images (limits of approximately g=20.5 mag, r=20.7 mag, and i=20.3 mag) and in our Dec 1.24 UT NEAT images (limit of R=18.5 mag; see GCN 1170)." This message may be cited.