TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 5701 SUBJECT: GRB 060930: near-IR afterglow candidate retraction DATE: 06/10/06 22:35:41 GMT FROM: Alberto Castro-Tirado at Inst.de Astro. de Andalucia A. de Ugarte Postigo, M. Jelinek, A.J. Castro-Tirado, J. Gorosabel (IAA-CSIC Granada) on behalf of a larger collaboration report: "We have reobserved the field of GRB 060930 (GCNC 5665) on a third epoch. This time we obtained frames with the 3.5m Calar Alto telescope in the H-band on Oct. 5.81 UT. The magnitude of the suspected afterglow candidate that we reported in GCNC 5682 is consistent with the one measured on the first epoch and we believe that the data taken on the second epoch (Oct 1.86 UT) were severely affected due to the presence of the Moon four degrees away. We thus conclude that the object reported in GCNC 5682 is not the near-IR afterglow to GRB 060930. A search for variability of the faintest near-IR sources within the INTEGRAL error box is under way. We acknowledge Heather F. Swan for also independently pointing out this to us by means of AEOS data."