GCN Circular 37578
Subject
EP240919a / GRB 240919A: KAIT optical upper limit
Date
2024-09-20T16:40:23Z (6 months ago)
From
Weikang Zheng at UC Berkeley <weikang@berkeley.edu>
Via
legacy email
WeiKang Zheng (UCB), Xuhui Han (NAOC), Pinpin Zhang (NAOC) and
Alexei V. Filippenko (UCB) report on behalf of the KAIT GRB team:
The 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), located at
Lick Observatory, responded to EP240919a/GRB 240919A (Liang et al.,
GCN 37561; Liang et al., GCN Circ. 37563; Rodi et al., GCN 37572;
Wang et al., GCN 37574) starting at 03:03 UT, Sep 20th, ~12.7
hours after the trigger. A set of 30x60s images were obtained in
the clear (roughly R) filters. Preliminary analysis do not reveal
any new optical counterpart candidate within the EP-FXT error
circle of the X-ray counterpart (Liang et al., GCN 37561) neither
in single image, nor in the co-add images. The typical limiting
magnitude of our single clear image is about 19.5 mag, and about
20.5 mag in the co-add image.