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GCN Circular 38000

Subject
GRB 241030A: COLIBRI Continuing Detection of the Afterglow
Date
2024-10-31T08:36:14Z (18 hours ago)
From
Alan Watson at UNAM <alan@astro.unam.mx>
Via
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S. Antier (OCA), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas),
William H. Lee (UNAM), D. Akl (AUS), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Nathaniel R.
Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), J.-G. Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin
(IRAP), Simona Lombardo (LAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), and Margarita
Pereyra (UNAM) report:

We imaged again the field of GRB 241030A detected by Fermi/GBM, Swift/BAT,
and Swift/XRT (Fermi GBM Team, GCN Circ. 37955; Klingler et al., GCN Circ.
37956) during the commissioning of the COLIBRÍ (SVOM/F-GFT) telescope at
the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in
Mexico.

We observed with the engineering test camera in a red filter that
approximates SDSS r. The data were reduced using custom software and then
analysed and calibrated against the PS1 catalog using the STDWeb service
(Karpov et al. 2022).

In 1200 seconds of exposure from 2024-10-31 01:46:50 to 02:10:56 UTC (0.83
to 0.85 days after the trigger), we detect the optical counterpart with an
AB magnitude of:

r = 19.95 +/- 0.06

This magnitude is consistent with the last optical observations reported
(GCN Circ. 37993, 37976, 37966 ).

Further observations are planned.

We warmly thank the COLIBRI engineering team and the staff of the
Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir

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