GCN Circular 40486
Subject
GRB 250516A: COLIBRÍ optical upper limit
Date
2025-05-18T16:00:54Z (a day ago)
From
Rosa L. Becerra at Tor Vergata, Roma <rosa.becerra@roma2.infn.it>
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Francis Fortin (IRAP), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Fredd Alvarez (UNAM), Dalya Akl (AUS), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Sarah Antier (OCA), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM) and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM):
We imaged the field of the GRB 250516A (Fermi GBM team GCN Circ. 40466; Beardmore et al., GCN Circ. 40467; Frederiks et al., GCN Circ. 40485) using the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2025-05-18 09:59 to 11:20 UTC (from 43.4 to 44.8 hours after the trigger) and obtained 64 minutes of exposure in the r filter.
The data were reduced and coadded with the COLIBRÍ pipeline and analysed with STDWeb/STDPipe (Karpov 2025). The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
In the stacked image, we do not detect any new source at the XRT source position (Evans
et al., GCN Circ. 40468) down to the following 3-sigma limit:
r > 22.08
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir and the COLIBRÍ and DDRAGO engineering teams.
COLIBRÍ is an astronomical observatory developed and operated jointly by France (AMU, CNES and CNRS) and Mexico (UNAM and SECIHTI). It is located at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico.