TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  3170
SUBJECT: GRB 050402A: IR Analysis
DATE:    05/04/02 10:01:42 GMT
FROM:    Josh Bloom at Harvard/CFA  <jbloom@cfa.harvard.edu>

H. W. Chen (MIT), J. S. Bloom (UCB), J. X. Prochaska (UCSC) & C. Blake
reports on behalf of a larger collaboration:

"Upon more detailed analysis following GCN #3168 we cannot confirm our
earlier claim of significant variability as suggested. We thus find no
variable or new source to the 2MASS detection levels in J, H, and K
starting ~18 min after the GRB."

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