GCN Circular 39816
Subject
EP 250321A: Optical counterpart detection by LCO.
Event
Date
2025-03-21T15:19:10Z (7 months ago)
From
ankur ghosh at CAPP, University of Johannesburg <ghosh.ankur1994@gmail.com>
Via
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Ankur Ghosh, Soebur Razzaque (CAPP, University of Johannesburg), Rahul Gupta (NASA GSFC), Alexander Moskvitin, Yulia Sotnikova (SAO RAS), Naveen Dukiya (ARIES) on behalf of a larger collaboration.
We observed the field of the GRB 250321A triggered by the Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) on board the Einstein Probe (EP) mission (Hu et al., GCN 39800) in the r, V filter of the 1-meter Sinistro telescope at the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) node located at Siding Spring is near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia . The 1-m Sinistro telescope is equipped with a 4K x 4K CCD (FOV: 26 x 26 arcmin, scale: 0.39 arcsec/pixel).
Observations began on March 21, 2025, starting 5.46 hours after the GRB trigger.
We clearly detect the optical transient (OT) reported by GCNs (Fu et al. GCN 39804, Perez-Garcia et al al., GCN 39805; Brivio et al., GCN 39807; Zhu et al., GCN 39809; Becerra et al., GCN 39810; Pérez-Fournon et al., GCN 39812, Lee et al., GCN 39815) in our r, V band image.
|Date| |UTstart| |t-T0 (hours)| |Exp (sec)| |Filter| |Magnitude|
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2025-03-21 11:38:04.13 5.468 1 x 900 r r = 21.40 +/- 0.07
2025-03-21 11:38:20.54 5.472 1 x 900 V V = 21.76 +/- 0.09
The field was calibrated against nearby APASS stars, with magnitudes converted using Lupton (2005) equations, and has not been corrected for Galactic extinction.