GCN Circular 39246
Subject
GRB 250129A: GRANDMA Continued Afterglow Detection
Date
2025-02-09T07:57:22Z (2 days ago)
Edited On
2025-02-10T14:10:06Z (8 hours ago)
From
Sarah Antier at OCA <sarah.antier@oca.eu>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Dalya Akl at American Uni. SHJ <dalyaakl.d@gmail.com>
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D. Akl (AUS), S. Antier (OCA/IJCLAB), M. Tanasan (NARIT). A. Simon (TShNU of Kyiv), N. Sasaki (OPD/LNA), S. Karpov (FZU), D. Turpin (CEA-Saclay/Irfu), M. Coughlin (UMN), P. Hello (IJCLAB), C. Andrade (UMN), P-A Duverne (APC), T. Pradier (Unistra/IPHC), I. Tosta e Melo (UniCT-DFA), N. Guessoum (AUS), A. Takey (NRIAG), Y. Hendy (NRIAG), M. Abdelkareem (NRIAG), E. Elhosseiny (NRIAG), N. Kochiashvili (AbAO), V. Zhuzhunadze (AbAO), V.Aivazyan (AbAO), R. Inasaridze (AbAO), A. Klotz (IRAP), F. Colas (Obs-Paris/LTE), A. Iskandar（XAO), X. F. Wang (THU), R. Hellot (KNC, AITP-OBS-SPC), M. Freeberg (KNC), S. Leonini (KNC, Montarrenti Obs.), C. Galdies (KNC), D. Marchais (KNC), M. Odeh (KNC, AKO), B. M. Mihov (BAS), L. Slavcheva-Mihova (BAS), T. Sun (PMO), F. Dux (Euler),
on behalf of GRANDMA:
We observed the field of GRB 250129A detected by Swift (Beardmore et al., GCN 39066) using GRANDMA and its citizen science project Kilonova-catcher (KNC).
We clearly detect the optical afterglow and we report a subset of the following magnitudes using different instruments:
| T-T0 (d)|Filter| Magnitude (AB) |Exposure(s)| Telescope |
| 0.65 | g' | 19.21 +/- 0.03 | 10x100s | TNOT |
| 0.86 | i' | 18.92 +/- 0.03 | 5x150s | KAO |
| 2.77 | R | 20.19 +/- 0.08 | 50x60s | AbAO-T70 |
| 3.04 | V | 20.35 +/- 0.04 | 3x600s | KNC |
| 4.88 | g' | 21.12 +/- 0.06 | 10x600s | NAO-2m |
| 6.99 | r' | 22.8 +/- 0.14 | 20x180s | 1m-PicduMidi |
All the data have been reduced by a single data processing pipeline, STDPipe (Karpov et al., 2022). Images obtained in Johnson Cousin filters were calibrated using the Gaia DR3 Synphot catalog, images taken with Sloan filters were calibrated with PanSTARRS-DR1 Catalog. Our measurements are not corrected from extinction. Weather conditions were excellent in all sites.
We use the SkyPortal application (skyportal.io) to monitor our observational campaign (Coughlin et al. 2023).
GRANDMA is a worldwide telescope network (grandma.ijclab.in2p3.fr) devoted to the observation of transients in the context of multi-messenger astrophysics (Antier et al. 2020 MNRAS 497, 5518). Kilonova-Catcher (KNC) is the citizen science program of GRANDMA (http://kilonovacatcher.in2p3.fr/).