GCN Circular 35990
Subject
X-ray transient EP240315a: continued ATCA monitoring
Date
2024-03-29T11:07:44Z (a month ago)
From
Roberto Ricci at INAF-IRA <ricci@ira.inaf.it>
Via
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R. Ricci (INAF-IRA), D. Dobie (Swinburne/OzGrav), J. K. Leung (U. Toronto/HUJI), E. Troja (U. Rome)
We report on the results of a follow-up observation of the field of AT2024eju (Srivastav et al., GCN35932), the likely optical counterpart to the fast X-ray transient EP240315a (Zhang et al., GCN35931), with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) under project code CX564. The observations were taken from 2024-03-26 06:20 UT to 2024-03-26 11:24 UT, in a single run, at 5.5 and 9 GHz. The primary calibrator was 1934-638 and the phase calibrator 0941-080.
From a preliminary analysis, the radio source reported in our previous GCN (Leung et al., GCN 35968) continues to be detected at a comparable flux level, ~0.1 mJy. Monitoring with ATCA will continue to assess the variability of the source.
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.