GCN Circular 40171
Subject
GRB 250419A: KAIT optical afterglow observations
Event
Date
2025-04-19T06:04:42Z (3 months ago)
From
Weikang Zheng at UC Berkeley <weikang@berkeley.edu>
Via
email
WeiKang Zheng (UCB), Xuhui Han (NAOC), Pinpin Zhang (NAOC) and
Alexei V. Filippenko (UCB) report on behalf of the KAIT GRB team:
The 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), located at
Lick Observatory, observed the field of SVOM GRB 250403A (Wang
et al., GCN 40168) with a set of clear (roughly R) images starting
at 1.47 hours after the trigger. We clearly detected the optical
afterglow (López et al., GCN 40169; Xin et al., GCN 40170) in our
single image. The afterglow is measured at 18.0 +/- 0.2 mag (Vega)
at 1.47 hours after the trigger. It remained to be similar brightness
for about 40 minutes then decayed after that. Observation is on
going.