GCN Circular 40023
Subject
GRB250402A: SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) Detection of the Optical Counterpart
Event
Date
2025-04-03T10:48:39Z (7 months ago)
Edited On
2025-04-04T13:41:05Z (7 months ago)
From
Francesco Magnani at Aix-Marseille Université, CPPM/CNRS <francesco.magnani.work@gmail.com>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Francesco Magnani at Aix-Marseille Université, CPPM/CNRS <francesco.magnani.work@gmail.com>
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Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Dalya Akl (AUS), Sarah Antier (OCA), Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU) , Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), , Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM), and X. Chen (YNU) report:
We imaged the field of the SVOM/ECLAIRs GRB 250402A (sb25040203, Chen et al. GCN 40014) with the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) telescope at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in Mexico.
We observed from 2025-04-03 04:37 to 06:49 UTC (between 5.49 and 7.69 hours after the trigger) and obtained 43 minutes of exposure in the i filter. The data were coadded with the COLIBRÍ pipeline and analyzed in STDWeb/STDPipe (Karpov 2025), with photometric calibration against Pan-STARRS DR1. Our photometry is in the AB system and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
At the position of the previously reported optical afterglow (Xin et al., GCN 40015; Pérez-Fournon et al. GCN 40020; Schneider et al. GCN 40022), we detect a source with a magnitude of
i = 21.22 +/- 0.11
Further observations are ongoing.
We warmly thank the COLIBRÍ and DDRAGO engineering teams and the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir.