TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  40273
SUBJECT: EP250427a/GRB 250427A: FTW optical and NIR observations of the counterpart 
DATE:    25/04/28 17:06:44 GMT
FROM:    Malte Busmann at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München <m.busmann@physik.lmu.de>

Malte Busmann (LMU), Brendan O’Connor (Carnegie Mellon U.), Daniel Gruen (LMU) and Antonella Palmese (Carnegie Mellon U.) report:

We observed the counterpart of EP250427a (Wang et al., GCN 40257; Lipunov et al., GCN 40258; Perez-Garcia et al., GCN 40259; Liu et al., GCN 40260; Becerra et al., GCN 40261; Brivio et al., GCN 40264; Saccardi et al., GCN 40266; Pérez-Fournon et al., GCN 40267; Xi et al., GCN 40269; Swain et al., GCN 40270; Magnani et al., GCN 40271; de Wet et al., GCB 40272) which was also seen as sub-threshold GRB 250427A by Fermi/GBM (Ravasio et al., GCN 40262) with the Three Channel Imager (3KK) at the Fraunhofer Telescope at Wendelstein Observatory (FTW) in the r, i and J band simultaneously for 10 x 180 s starting at 2025-04-28T01:48:29 UT (0.92 days after the trigger). We detect the counterpart at

r = (20.17 +/- 0.03) mag
i = (19.75 +/- 0.03) mag
J = (18.91 +/- 0.03) mag.

The r and i band magnitudes are calibrated against the PS1 catalog and the J band is calibrated with the 2MASS Catalog. All magnitudes are provided in the AB system and are not corrected for Galactic extinction.

We thank Michael Schmidt from the Wendelstein Observatory staff for obtaining these observations.