GCN Circular 37359

D. Akl (AUS), S. Antier (OCA), M. Coughlin (UMN), P-A Duverne (APC), P. Hello (IJCLAB), C. Andrade (UMN), I. Tosta e Melo (UniCT-DFA), S. Karpov (FZU), D. Turpin (CEA-Saclay/Irfu), N. Guessoum (AUS), T. Pradier (Unistra/IPHC), R. Inasaridze, V. Aivazyan, N. Kochiashvili (AbAO), K. Noysena, M. Tanasan (NARIT), A. Kaeouch (OUCA) on behalf of the GRANDMA collaboration:

We performed observations with GRANDMA and its citizen science project Kilonova-catcher (KNC) on the field of GRB 240828B, detected by SVOM/ECLAIRs (GCN 37318
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), with the TRT-SRO, Abastumani-T70, and KNC-ASO telescopes.

The first observations started on 29-08-2024 at 10:24:08 (UTC), 0.88 days after the GRB trigger, and lasted for 0.65 days. The observations covered the B, V, R, and I filters.

We did not detect any optical counterpart at the Swift-XRT afterglow position (3 arcsec, centered around RA, Dec = 63.45995, 16.71561). 

We also searched the SVOM/ECLAIRs localization position (25 arcmin, centered around RA, Dec = 63.36, 16.71) and did not detect any optical counterpart.

Our photometry results and upper limits can be found at: https://skyportal-icare.ijclab.in2p3.fr/public/sources/S24082808/

All the data has been reduced by a single data processing pipeline, STDPipe (Karpov et al., 2022).

Our results are consistent with Zheng et al. (GCN 37345
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), Moskvitin et al. (GCN 37346
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), Wu et al. (GCN 37347
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), Xin et al. (GCN 37348
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), Wang et al. (GCN 37350
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), and Schneider et al. (GCN 37352
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). 

We use the SkyPortal application (skyportal.io) to monitor our observational campaign.
We thank SVOM for the useful communication.

GRANDMA is a worldwide telescope network (grandma.ijclab.in2p3.fr) devoted to the observation of transients in the context of multi-messenger astrophysics (Antier et al. 2020 MNRAS 49, 5518). Kilonova-Catcher (KNC) is the citizen science program of GRANDMA (http://kilonovacatcher.in2p3.fr/).