GCN Circular 39212
Subject
GRB 250207A: REM IR afterglow detection
Date
2025-02-07T18:01:45Z (3 days ago)
From
Matteo Ferro at INAF-OAB <matteo.ferro@inaf.it>
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M. Ferro, R. Brivio, P. D’Avanzo, S. Covino, D. Fugazza (INAF-OAB) report on behalf of the REM team:
We observed the field of GRB 250207A, detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 39181) and Swift/BAT (Ferro et al., GCN 39182) with the REM 60cm robotic telescope located at the ESO observatory of La Silla (Chile). The observations were carried in the g, r, i, z, J, H, K bands, starting on 2025 February 07 at 01:17:08 UT (i.e. 61 s after the Swift trigger), and lasting for about 2 hours.
From preliminary photometry we detect the counterpart in the IR images at the position of the optical afterglow (Angulo et al., GCN 39186; Kuin & Ferro, GCN 39199; Brivio et al., GCN 39202; Jelinek et al., GCN 39209) with the following magnitude:
H ~ 13.3 (Vega; calibrated against the 2MASS catalogue)
at a mid-time of t - t0 = 26.6 minutes after the trigger.