{
  "circularId": 37444,
  "createdOn": 1725959810359,
  "submitter": "Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow <grb.alex@gmail.com>",
  "submittedHow": "email-legacy",
  "subject": "EP240908a: Mondy and AbAO follow-up observations",
  "bibcode": "2024GCN.37444....1P",
  "eventId": "EP240908a",
  "body": " N. Pankov (HSE, IKI), A. Pozanenko (IKI), E. Klunko (ISTP), R. Ya.\nInasaridze (AbAO), S. Belkin (HSE, IKI) report on behalf of GRB-IKI-FuN:\n\n\nWe observed the field of fast X-Ray transient EP240908a (Mao et al., GCN\n37432) with AZT-33IK 1.5-m telescope of Mondy observatory, and AS-32 0.7-m\ntelescope of Abastumani observatory (AbAO). The observations were started\non 2024-09-08 at 19:05 UT at Mondy (~ 1 day since EP trigger).\nThe series of images in the R-filter were taken. Preliminary upper limits\nare given below:\n\nDate UTStart JD Filter Exp. OT err UL(3sigma) Telescope\n(mid, days) (s)\n2024-09-09 19:05:56 60562.82703 R 45x120 n/d n/d 23.5 AZT-33IK\n2024-09-09 19:37:24 60562.84333 R 74x60 n/d n/d 19.7 AS-32\n\nThe magnitudes were calibrated with nearby USNO-B1.0 stars (R2 magnitudes).\nWe do not resolve the optical source proposed by Quirola-Vasquez et al.\n(GCN 37438). In a stacke Mondy image we clearly detect a nearby LS DR10\nelliptical source at RA=00:56:00.5 DEC=+08:04:33.2 which is  apart of 3.6\narcsec from the proposed OT. This elliptical source might be a host galaxy\nof the EP240908a.\n"
}