GCN Circular 39760
Subject
GRB 250316A: AbAO AS-32 Optical Upper Limit
Date
2025-03-17T12:43:30Z (18 days ago)
From
Nicolai Pankov at HSE, IKI RAS <colinsergesen@gmail.com>
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N. Pankov (HSE, IKI), R. Ya. Inasaridze (AbAO), A. Pozanenko (IKI) report on behalf of IKI-GRB-FuN:
We performed optical observations of the field of GRB 250316A (The Fermi GBM team, GCN 39741; Ronchini et. al, GCN 39744; Evans, GCN 39745; Lipunov et. al, GCN 39747; Kennea et. al, GCN 39750; Bala & Meegan, GCN 39751; Beardmore et. al, GCN 39758) in the R filter with the 0.7-meter AS-32 telescope of the Abastumani Astrophysical Observatory (AbAO). The observations started on (UT) 2025-03-17 00:17:41, i.e. about 0.67 days since trigger. We do not find any new optical source within the error circle of the most probable candidate afterglow Swift XRT #1 (Beardmore et. al, GCN 39758). The preliminary upper limit is as follows:
Date UT start t-T0 Exp. Filter OT UL(3sigma)
(mid, days) (s)
2025-03-17 00:17:41 0.67447 107*60 R n/d 19.7
The photometry is based on nearby stars from the USNO-B1.0 catalog (R2 magnitudes) and has not been corrected for the Galactic extinction.