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GCN Circular 36880

Subject
GRB 240713A: LAST optical upper limit
Date
2024-07-16T07:56:20Z (3 months ago)
From
Ruslan Konno at Weizmann Institute of Science <ruslan.konno@desy.de>
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R. Konno (WIS), S. Garrappa (WIS), E. O. Ofek (WIS), S. Ben-Ami (WIS), D. Polishook (WIS), P. Chen (WIS), A. Krassilchtchikov (WIS), Y. M. Shani (WIS), E. Segre (WIS), A. Gal-Yam (WIS), S. Spitzer (WIS), and K. Rybicki (WIS) on behalf of the LAST Collaboration

We report observations of GRB 240713A detected by SVOM/ECLAIR (Schanne et al, GCN 36854

Not found
 
 
) and potentially Fermi/GBM (Burns et al., GCN 36856) with the Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST; Ofek et al. 2023 PASP 135, 5001; Ben-Ami et al. 2023 PASP 135, 5002).

We observed the field of GRB 240713A at two epochs using 4 parallel telescopes, each with a FoV of 7.4 deg^2 and no filter (clear - similar to the GAIA Bp band). In each epoch, we coadd about 400 images with each of 20s exposure, and the limiting magnitude is around 22.5 (AB mag). We performed image subtraction between the two epochs, and we did not find any optical source decaying by more than 0.5 magnitudes between the two epochs, down to a limiting magnitude of 22. The search was conducted within 10 arcminutes of J2000 RA, Dec = 352.59, 1.88.

The epoch details are:

Time (JD)T - T0 (h)Exposure (s)
2460505.5013222.0437960
2460506.5008446.0317880

LAST is a survey telescope array of the Weizmann Astrophysical Observatory (https://www.weizmann.ac.il/wao/).

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