GCN Circular 40590
Subject
GRB 250521C/ZTF25aarhkyn/AT2025mgj: COLIBRÍ optical observations
Event
Date
2025-05-31T15:39:50Z (a year ago)
From
Rosa L. Becerra at Tor Vergata, Roma <rosa.becerra@roma2.infn.it>
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Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), 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), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (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 ZTF25aarhkyn/AT2025mgj (Andreoni et al., GCN Circ. 40566) using the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2025-05-31 03:33 to 04:32 UTC, after 9.6 days after the trigger of GRB 250521C (Fermi GBM team, GCN 40515) and obtained 16 minutes of exposure in each of the g, r and i filters.
The data were reduced and stacked using the COLIBRÍ pipeline. The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
We detected the candidate ZTF25aarhkyn/AT2025mgj (Andreoni et al., GCN Circ. 40566), at preliminary magnitudes of:
g = 19.34 +/- 0.03
r = 19.46 +/- 0.03
i = 19.50 +/- 0.05
Compared with the NOT observations reported by Martin-Carrillo et al. (GCN Circ. 40584), we estimate a steeper temporal decay index of ~1.5. The measured colours are consistent with those typically observed in GRBs, suggesting a similar nature. Additionally, the temporal evolution may indicate that AT2025mgj is a possible off-axis GRB; however, the absence of a nearby galaxy makes this scenario unlikely.
Further observations are planned in order to unravel the nature of this object.
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.