GCN Circular 40578
Subject
GRB 250530A: SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) optical counterpart candidate retraction and detection limit
Date
2025-05-30T09:26:33Z (2 days ago)
From
Antonio de Ugarte Postigo at LAM, CNRS <adeugartepostigo@gmail.com>
Via
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Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), William H. Lee (UNAM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Fredd Alvarez (UNAM), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Dalya Akl (AUS), Sarah Antier (OCA), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), and Y. Wang (PMO, CAS):
Further analysis of the data observed by COLIBRÍ (de Ugarte Postigo et al. GCN Circ. 40577) reveals that the source that we had identified was a known minor planet (2001 VE24). Further analysis of the field, including a stack of 32x60 s images obtained in the i-band between 2025-05-30 06:40:04 to 07:10:38 UTC do not show any credible counterpart down to a 5-sigma limit of i > 22.0 mag (AB).
We apologize for the confusion generated by our previous GCN.
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.