TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 15364 SUBJECT: GRB 131014A: RATIR Optical/NIR Afterglow Retraction DATE: 13/10/21 23:39:18 GMT FROM: Eleonora Troja at GSFC Eleonora Troja (GSFC), Nat Butler (ASU), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC), William H. Lee (UNAM), Michael G. Richer (UNAM), Chris Klein (UCB), Ori Fox (UCB), J. Xavier Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB), Antonino Cucchiara (ORAU/GSFC), Owen Littlejohns (ASU), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), José A. de Diego (UNAM), Leonid Georgiev (UNAM), Jesús González (UNAM), Carlos Román-Zúñiga (UNAM), Neil Gehrels (GSFC), and Harvey Moseley (GSFC) report: We reobserved the field of GRB 131014A (Fitzpatrick, et al., GCN 15332; Desiante, et al., GCN 15333) with the Reionization and Transients Infrared Camera (RATIR; www.ratir.org) on the 1.5m Harold Johnson Telescope at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on Sierra San Pedro Mártir from from 2013/10 17.36 to 2013/10 17.53 UTC (75.50 to 79.48 hours after the GBM trigger), and again the next night from 2013/10 18.35 to 2013/10 18.53 UTC (99.18 to 103.48 hours after the GBM trigger), obtaining a total of 2.3 hours exposure in the r and i bands and 1.0 hours exposure in the Z, Y, J, and H bands each night. These observations reach similar depths to prior RATIR observations of the field (Troja, et al., GCNs 15340, 15346) in which we report a candidate optical/NIR afterglow, albeit with marginal statistical significance. Although the optical/NIR candidate afterglow appears fainter in the 2nd and 3rd nights relative to our 1st night, it is similarly bright in the 4th night as on the 1st night. The co-addition of data from nights 2 through 4 yields flux levels (in all bands) statistically consistent with those measured on night 1. An image subtraction analysis confirms this result. We conclude that our source is not the optical/NIR afterglow of GRB 131014A. We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional in San Pedro Mártir.