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GCN Circular 39136

Subject
GRB 250129A: COLIBRÍ/DDRAGO Afterglow Detection
Date
2025-02-03T20:10:36Z (7 days ago)
From
Alan Watson at UNAM <alan@astro.unam.mx>
Via
email
Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Dalya Akl (AUS), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Sarah
Antier (OCA), Rosa L. Becerra (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor
Vergata), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Jean-Luc
Atteia (IRAP), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM),
Francis Fortin (IRAP), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francesco Magnani
(CPPM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM)

and the DDRAGO engineering team:

Luis Carlos Álvarez (UNAM), Fernando Angeles, Salvador Cuevas (UNAM),
François Dolon (OHP), Alejandro Farah (UNAM), Johan Floriot (LAM),
Jorge Fuentes-Fernández (UNAM), Arthur Langios (IRAP), Rosalía
Langarica (UNAM), Simona Lombarda (LAM), Jaime Ruíz Díaz-Soto (UNAM),
Samuel Ronayette (CEA), Silvio Tinoco (UNAM), and Hervé Valentín
(IRAP)

report:

We imaged the field of the Swift GRB 250129A (Beardmore et al., GCN
Circ. 39066) with the COLIBRÍ (SVOM/F-GFT) telescope at the
Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in
Mexico.

We observed with the DDRAGO wide-field science camera (Langarica et
al., 2024, Proc SPIE 13096, 130963D) in a filter that closely
approximates Pan-STARRS r, from 2025-02-03 07:45 to 08:00 UTC, at a
midpoint of 5.20 days after the event, and obtained 600 seconds of
exposure at a median airmass of 2.25 and good weather conditions. The
data were reduced using custom software and then analysed and
calibrated against the PS1 catalog using STDPipe (Karpov 2021).

We clearly detect the afterglow with

r = 22.10 +/- 0.15

This magnitude is not corrected for Galactic extinction. Our
measurement is consistent with the magnitude reported by Bochenek &
Perley (GCN Circ. 39131) at 4.93 days after the event.

Further observations are planned.

The DDRAGO camera is still being commissioned, and these are its first
science observations. We warmly thank the COLIBRÍ engineering team and
the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de
San Pedro Mártir.

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