GCN Circular 39864
Subject
FRB 250316A: NOT optical upper limit for the X ray source EP J120944.2+585060
Date
2025-03-24T17:09:34Z (8 months ago)
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S.Q. Jiang, Z.P. Zhu, X. Liu, J. An (NAOC), S.Y. Fu (HUST), D. Xu (NAOC), J.P.U. Fynbo (DAWN/NBI), A. M. Kadela, A. A. Djupvik (NOT) report on behalf of a large collaboration:
We observed the field of the X-ray candidate EP J120944.2+585060 (Sun et al., GCN 39834; ATel #17100) possibly associated with FRB 250316A (Ng et al., ATel #17081; Leung et al., ATel #17086), using the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) equipped with the ALFOSC camera. The mid time of the observations is 01:00:20.3 UTC on 2025-03-23, and a series of 300 s frames were obtained in the Sloan r-band.
No new optical source is detected in the stacked image within the EP/FXT error region by subtracting the stacked image against the Legacy Survey template. The 5-sigma limiting magnitude of the observations is r > 24.0, calibrated with Legacy Survey DR 10 and not corrected for Galactic extinction.
The non-detection of an optical counterpart is consistent with previous reports by Becerra et al. (ATel #17082; GCN 39843; GCN 39853), Niino et al. (ATel #17084), Hashimoto et al. (ATel #17095), Yang et al. (ATel #17101), Aryan et al. (GCN 39839) and Pereyra et al. (GCN 39858).