GCN Circular 36105
Subject
EP 240414a: NOT optical counterpart confirmation
Date
2024-04-15T04:54:28Z (a year ago)
From
Dong Xu at NAOC/CAS <dxu@nao.cas.cn>
Via
email
D. Xu (NAOC), D.B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI & Radboud), P. Jonker (Radboud), Z.P. Zhu, X. Liu, S.Y. Fu, S.Q. Jiang, J. An, T.H. Lu (NAOC), M. Turkki (U. of Helsinki, NOT) report on behalf of a large collaboration:
We observed the field of the X-ray transient detected by Einstein Probe, EP 240414a, using the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) equipped with the ALFOSC camera. Observations started at 22:07:38UT on 2024-04-14, i.e., 12.29 hr after the EP trigger and 5 x 300 s r-band frames were obtained.
The previously reported optical counterpart candidate by LOT (Aryan et al., GCN 36094