GCN Circular 39477
Subject
EP250225a: GSP optical upper limit
Date
2025-02-26T05:25:33Z (a month ago)
From
Wenxiong Li <liwenxiong1992@gmail.com>
Via
Web form
W. X. Li, S. J. Xue (NAOC), M. Andrews, J. Farah, D. A. Howell, M. Newsome, E. Padilla Gonzalez, C. McCully, and G. Terreran (Las Cumbres Observatory), on behalf of a larger collaboration, report:
Following the detection of the fast X-ray transient EP250225a by the Einstein Probe (Jiang et al., GCN 39475) with the Sinistro instrument mounted on the 1-m telescope of the LCO, we initiated observations of the fast X-ray transient location starting on 2025 Feb 26th at 04:50:50 UT (~15 hours after the EP/WXT trigger) in the r band. These observations were conducted using the 1-meter telescope at the Las Cumbres Observatory node located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.
No new optical source was detected in the co-added images within the EP/WXT error box down to ~21.5 mag.
These observations were taken as part of the Global Supernova Project.