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GCN Circular 38884

Subject
EP-WXT trigger EP250109a:Xinglong optical follow-up observations
Date
2025-01-10T04:52:16Z (a month ago)
From
EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta@bao.ac.cn>
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Report on behalf of the Xinglong collaboration: Junjie-Jin(NAOC), Haiyang-Mu(NAOC), Feng-Xiao(NAOC), Pengliang-Du(NAOC), Ying-Wu(NAOC), Zhou-Fan(NAOC), Hong-Wu(NAOC), Jie-Zheng (NAOC) We observed the field of the X-ray transient, EP 250109a by the Xinglong 2.16-m telescope located at Xinglong, Hebei, China. A total of 6 x 600 s N-band exposures were taken , with a median observation time of 2025-01-09 T13:06:56, approximately 6.5 hours after the EP trigger. No optical counterpart was detected, with a 5-sigma limiting magnitude of 22.48, calibrated with Pan-STARRS sources in the field.

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