GCN Circular 35968

J. K. Leung (U. Toronto/HUJI), R. Ricci (INAF-IRA), D. Dobie (Swinburne/OzGrav), E. Troja (U. Rome)

We observed the field of AT2024eju
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 (Srivastav et al., GCN35932
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), the likely optical counterpart to the fast X-ray transient EP240315a (Zhang et al., GCN35931
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), with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) under project code CX564. The observations were taken on two consecutive days, from 2024-03-19 06:30 UT to 2024-03-19 09:00 UT and from 2024-03-20 06:30 UT to 2024-03-20 09:30 UT, both at 5.5 and 9 GHz.

In our preliminary analysis, we detect a radio source at both 5.5 and 9 GHz, with a flux density of ~0.1mJy. The position of the source is consistent with that of EP240315a (Zhang et al., GCN35931
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), AT2024eju
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 (Srivastav et al., GCN35932
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), and the radio counterpart detected at 3 GHz by MeerKAT (Carotenuto et al., GCN35961
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).

Further ATCA observations are planned.

We thank the CSIRO Space and Astronomy staff, in particular Jamie Stevens, for supporting these observations in a timely manner. We acknowledge the Gomeroi people as the traditional owners of the Observatory site. The Australia Telescope Compact Array is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (https://ror.org/05qajvd42) which is funded by the Australian Government for operation as a National Facility managed by CSIRO.