GCN Circular 40626
Subject
GRB 250601A: PRIME H band upper limit.
Event
Date
2025-06-04T15:02:32Z (23 days ago)
From
N. Passaleva at Sapienza University of Rome <niccolo.passaleva@uniroma1.it>
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N. Passaleva (U Rome), O. Guiffreda (UMD), J. Durbak (UMD), M. Elkabir (U Rome), E. Troja (U Rome), A. S. Kutyrev (NASA/GSFC), S. B. Cenko (NASA/GSFC)
Following the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) detection (GCN 40596), and the Swift/BAT-GUANO arcminutes localization of same event, we observed the transient field in H filter with PRIME ~47.5 hours after the initial Fermi detection.
Using Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) for preliminary calibration we do not detect any uncatalogued source down to H>20.6 AB (3-sigma) not corrected for galactic extinction at the position of the candidates reported by Swift/XRT (Page et al. GCN 40604, Salvaggio et al., GCN 40606) and EP/FXT (Liu et al., GCN 40607).
PRIME is a 1.8m telescope with 1.56 square degree FOV (0.5 arcsec/pixel) located in Sutherland, South Africa at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) (Kutyrev et al. 2023, Yama et al. 2023, Durbak et al. 2024).
We thank the Osaka University observers at PRIME and the staff at SAAO for their support with these observations.