GCN Circular 40157
Subject
EP250416a: GSP optical upper limit
Date
2025-04-17T06:06:13Z (7 days ago)
From
Wenxiong Li at NAOC <liwenxiong1992@gmail.com>
Via
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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 EP250416a by the Einstein Probe (Zhao et al., GCN 40154), we initiated observations of its location starting on 2025 April 17th at 01:43 UT (~8 hours after the EP/WXT trigger) in the i band. These observations were conducted using the 1-meter telescope at the Las Cumbres Observatory node located at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia.
No new optical source was detected in the co-added images within the EP/FXT error box down to ~20 mag.
These observations were taken as part of the Global Supernova Project.