The dark side of GRB 020819

Klose, S.; Stecklum, B.; Henden, A. A.; Greiner, J.; Hartmann, D. H.; Cardiel, N.; Gallego, J.; Tanvir, N. R.; Castro-Tirado, A. J.; Pian, E.
Bibliographical reference

Third Rome Workshop on Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era ASP Conference Series, Volume 312, Proceedings of the conference held 17-20 September 2002, in Rome, Italy. Edited by M. Feroci, F. Frontera, N. Masetti, and L. Piro. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2004., p.217

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2004
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Description
We report rapid near-infrared observations of GRB 020819. We find that any afterglow was fainter than K'=19 only 9 hrs after the burst. We discuss if extinction by cosmic dust in the GRB host galaxy can explain the faintness of this afterglow.