GCN Circular 37061

I. Perez-Garcia, E. Fernandez-Garcia, M.D. Caballero-Garcia, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, S. Guziy, S.-Y. Wu, G. Garcia-Segura and A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC, Granada), Y.-D. Hu (INAF-OAB), P. J. Meintjes and H. J. van Heerden (UFS, South Africa), A. Martin-Carrillo and L. Hanlon (UCD, Ireland), C. J. Perez del Pulgar (UMA, Malaga) and D.-R. Xiong (YNAO) on behalf of a larger collaboration, report:

Following the detection of EP240804a by EP-WXT (Wang et al., GCNC 37034), the BOOTES-6/DPRT 0.6m robotic telescope at Boyden Observatory in Maselspoort (South Africa) observed the transient location starting on Aug. 5, 01:55:49 UT (~ 4.3 hrs after trigger). A series of images in clear filter were gathered and the optical counterpart was detected for which we measure a preliminary magnitude of 20.0 +- 0.1 on the co-added 60 s x 13 image, which is consistent with the detections of NOT (An et al. GCNC 37035), LCOGT (Poidevin et al. GCNC 37036), VLT (Bochenek et al. GCNC 37039) and GSP (Li et al. GCNC 37044). Further imaging is ongoing.

We thank the staff at Boyden Observatory for their excellent support.