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GCN Circular 40222

Subject
Swift GRB250424A: Global MASTER-Net OT detection
Date
2025-04-24T07:06:22Z (2 days ago)
Edited On
2025-04-24T13:20:21Z (2 days ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov>
Via
email
C.Francile,  F. Podesta, R.Podesta, E. Gonzalez (Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (OAFA),
V.Lipunov, E.Gorbovskoy, N.Tiurina, P.Balanutsa, D.Vlasenko, I.Panchenko, A.Kuznetsov, G.Antipov, 
A.Sankovich, A.Sosnovskij, Yu.Tselik, M.Gulyaev, Ya.Kechin, V.Senik, A.Chasovnikov, K.Labsina (Lomonosov MSU),
O.Gress, N.Budnev(ISU),
A. Tlatov, D. Dormidontov (Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory),
A. Gabovich, V.Yurkov (Blagoveschensk Educational StateUniversity)
D.Buckley (SAAO),
R.Rebolo (The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias),
L.Carrasco, J.R.Valdes, V.Chavushyan, V.M.Patino Alvarez, J.Martinez, A.R.Corella, L.H.Rodriguez (INAOE, Guillermo Haro Astrophysics Observatory)

MASTER-OAFA robotic telescope (Global MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru, Lipunov et al., 2010, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2010, 30L) located in Argentina (OAFA observatory of San Juan National University) was pointed to the  GRB250424.29 99 sec after notice time and 178 sec after trigger time at 2025-04-24 06:55:26 UT. On our first (40s exposure)  set we  found 1 optical transient within Swift error-box (ra=217.512 dec=-35.0214 r=0.05) brighter than  18.9.


 T-Tmid      Date      Time       Expt.        Ra                Dec           Mag
---------|---------------------|-------|-----------------|-----------------|-------
     198   2025-04-24 06:55:26      40   (14h 29m 59.96s , -35d 01m 30.7s)     18.0

The 5-sigma upper limit has been about  18.9mag
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