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GCN Circular 38047

Subject
EP241101a: BOOTES-7 optical upper limit
Date
2024-11-02T18:46:16Z (25 days ago)
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I. Perez-Garcia, S.-Y. Wu, E. Fernandez-Garcia, M. D. Caballero-Garcia, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, S. Guziy and A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC, Granada), C. Perez del Pulgar, A. Castellon, A. Reina (Univ. de Malaga), Y.-D. Hu (INAF-OAB, Brera), L. Hernandez-Garcia (Univ. de Valparaiso), M. Gritsevich (Univ. of Helsinki), D. R. Xiong (Yunnan Observatories of CAS), B.-B. Zhang (Nanjing Univ.) and A. Maury (Space, San Pedro de Atacama), on behalf of a larger collaboration, report:

Following the detection of the fast X-ray transient EP241101a by the Einstein Probe (Liang et al. GCNC 38039), the 0.6m BOOTES-7 robotic telescope at San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) observed the fast X-ray transient location starting on Nov 02, 04:55 UT (5 hours after trigger and 4 minutes after notification) in different optical bands. No new optical source is detected on the co-added images (clear-filter) within the EP/WXT 2.8 arcmin radius error box down to 20.1 mag.
We thank the staff at San Pedro de Atacama Celestial Explorations observatory for their excellent support.

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