GCN Circular 36155
Subject
EP240416a: BOOTES-2/TELMA Optical Upper Limit
Date
2024-04-18T09:25:48Z (a month ago)
From
Dingrong Xiong at Yunnan Observatories of CAS, China <xiongdingrong@ynao.ac.cn>
Via
legacy email
D. R. Xiong, J. M. Bai, J. R. Mao, Y. F. Fan, K. Ye, C. J. Wang, Y. X. Xin, B. L. Lun, J. J. Zhang, X. H. Zhao, L. Xu, K. X. Lu, X. Ding, X. G. Yu, D. Q. Wang, S. S. He, X. L. Zhang, J. G. Wang (Yunnan Observatories/CAS), A. J. Castro-Tirado, E. Fernandez-Garcia, Y. D. Hu (IAA-CSIC) and C. J. Perez del Pulgar (UMA) on behalf of the BOOTES team report:
We observed the X-ray transient EP 240416a (Cheng et al., GCN 36138), and did not found any optical counterpart within an uncertainty of 3 arcmin in radius compared to the PanSTARRS DR1 image. The upper limits of magnitudes (without being corrected for Galactic extinction) are given as follows.
Tmid-T0 (day) | UT (start) | Upper Limit (error) | Exposure Time | Filter
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0.96 | 24-04-17T01:50:42 | 19.56 (0.2) | 100s*10 | Clear
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The Burst Optical Observer and Transient Exploring System (BOOTES) is a world-wide automatic telescope network which aims to repaid follow-up of transient and astrophysical sources in the sky for which the first station was installed in 1998 (Castro-Tirado et al. 1999; Hu et al. 2021). The BOOTES-2/TELMA robotic telescope at IHSM La Mayora (UMA-CSIC) in Algarrobo Costa (Malaga, Spain). We acknowledge the support of these staffs from the BOOTES telescope networks.
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