GCN Circular 39445
Subject
EP250223a: SVOM/VT optical observation
Date
2025-02-24T07:51:36Z (22 days ago)
Edited On
2025-02-24T14:15:22Z (22 days ago)
From
SVOM_group <svomgroup@bao.ac.cn>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of SVOM_group <svomgroup@bao.ac.cn>
Via
Web form
L.P. Xin, Y.L. Qiu(NAOC), Y. Wang(PMO), H.L. Li, C. Wu, Z.H. Yao, Y. N. Ma, X.H. Han, H.B. Cai, J. Wang, Y. Xu, J.Y. Wei(NAOC), J. T. Palmerio(CEA/Irfu) report on behalf of the SVOM team:
The SVOM/VT conducted a ToO follow-up observations of the EP250223a (Lian et al., GCN 39429) in VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm) channel simultaneously.
The afterglow (Hauptmann et al., GCN 39436; Wu et al., GCN 39439; Pérez-Fournon et al., GCN 39440; Izzo et al., GCN 39441), with a redshift of 2.756 (Levan et al., GCN 39438), was clearly detected within the error box of EP/FXT (Lian et al., GCN 39429) and Swift/XRT (Kennea et al., GCN 39437) in the VT_R and VT_B images.
The afterglow was fading during our observations and the brightness was estimated to be 19.21+/-0.05 mag in AB magnitude in VT_R, and 20.11+/-0.05 mag in AB magnitude in VT_B, at the mid time of 3.7 hours post the burst.
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA, China), National Center for Space Studies (CNES, France) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, China), which is dedicated to observing gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena in the energetic universe. VT was jointly developed by Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), CAS and National astronomical observatories (NAOC),CAS.