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GCN Circular 39397

Subject

GRB 250221A: COLIBRÍ/DDRAGO Confirmation of a Bright Optical Counterpart

Date

2025-02-21T04:03:03Z (a day ago)

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Alan Watson at UNAM <alan@astro.unam.mx>

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Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Camila Angulo (UNAM), William H. Lee (UNAM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), Dalya Akl (AUS), Sarah Antier (OCA), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM) report:

We imaged the field of Swift/BAT GRB 250221A (Caputo et al., GCN Circ. 39396Loading...
 
 ) with the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in Mexico.

We started observing at 2025-02-21 03:35:56 UTC (80 seconds after the trigger). The data were coadded with custom software and analyzed in STDWeb/STDPipe (Karpov 2021), with photometric calibration against Pan-STARRS DR1 and image subtraction against Pan-STARRS DR2. Our photometry is in the AB system and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.

In our first two 60 second exposure, we detect a source with 

	i = 17.04 +/- 0.01

There is a much fainter source visible in the Pan-STARRS DR2 at this position. This might be the host galaxy.

We warmly thank the COLIBRÍ and DDRAGO engineering teams and the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir.