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GCN Circular 36861

Subject
GRB 240713A: OHP/T120 optical upper limit
Date
2024-07-14T11:50:00Z (5 months ago)
Edited On
2024-07-15T11:36:47Z (5 months ago)
From
Damien Turpin at CEA-Saclay <dturpin-astro@hotmail.com>
Edited By
Leo P. Singer at NASA/GSFC <leo.p.singer@nasa.gov> on behalf of Damien Turpin at CEA-Saclay <dturpin-astro@hotmail.com>
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D. Turpin (CEA Paris-Saclay), Vincent Robert (IMCCE), C. Adami, S. Basa (LAM/Pytheas/AMU), A. de Ugarte Postigo (OCA/LAM), S. D. Vergani (GEPI, Obs. de Paris), B. Schneider (MIT), E. Le Floc'h, D. Götz, F. Schussler (CEA Paris-Saclay), M. Dennefeld (IAP) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:

We observed the field of GRB 240713A (Schanne et al., GCN 36854) also possibly detected by Fermi-GBM as a sub-threshold event (Burns et al., GCN 36856) using the T120cm telescope at Observatoire de Haute-Provence (France). A total of 8 single exposures between 400-500 seconds (3200 sec in total) were obtained in the R-band from 00:27:57.12 UT to 01:35:28.71 on 2024-07-14 (mid-time ~22.98h after the SVOM ECLAIRs trigger time). Note that our field of view (FoV) could only partially cover the ECLAIRs error box so we perfomed single observations with a quite large dithering in order to cover ~80% of the ECLAIRs error box. This results in an sky position dependency of our exposure time in the combined frame.

In the combined frame, after subtracting with the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog, we did not detect any optical counterpart consistent with the non detection reported by (Hello et al., GCN 36855; Sankar et al., GCN 36857). We measure a limiting magnitude of R > 21.7 (5 sigma) where we obtained the longest exposures in the stacked frame.

At the positions of the x-ray sources found by EP/FXT (Yang et al., GCN 36860), we derive the following optical upper limits in R-band:

Source | R.A. | Dec. | OHP/T120 U.L (5 sigma)
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EP J233058.2+015317  | 352.7425 | 1.8879 | 21.3
EP J233023.3+015537  | 352.5970 | 1.9269 | 21.7
EP J233039.0+014426  | 352.6627 | 1.7404 | Not in our FoV
EP J233020.4+015231  | 352.5850 | 1.8753 | 21.8
EP J233016.5+020124  | 352.5687 | 2.0232 | 21.4
EP J233017.4+014339  | 352.5724 | 1.7275 | Not in our FoV
EP J233012.2+015001  | 352.5509 | 1.8335 | 21.8
EP J233042.1+015623  | 352.6754 | 1.9397 | 21.7
EP J233002.5+015949  | 352.5104 | 1.9968 | 21.3
EP J232954.2+015030  | 352.4757 | 1.8416 | 21.3

The photometric calibration was performed using nearby stars from the Gaia DR3 Synphot catalog and magnitudes are not corrected for Galactic extinction.

We acknowledge the Observatoire de Haute Provence staff for their excellent support.
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