GCN Circular 40768
Subject
GRB 250617B: GOTO optical upper limit
Event
Date
2025-06-18T06:29:28Z (a year ago)
From
Amit Kumar at Royal Holloway - UoL/ U of Warwick, UK <amitkundu515@gmail.com>
Via
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A. Kumar, B. P. Gompertz, G. Ramsay, R. Starling, K. Ackley, M. J. Dyer, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, D. O'Neill, B. Godson, D. Steeghs, D. K. Galloway, V. Dhillon, P. O'Brien, K. Noysena, R. Kotak, R. P. Breton, L. K. Nuttall, and J. Casares report on behalf of the GOTO collaboration:
We report on optical observations with the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO; Steeghs et al. 2022; Dyer et al. 2024) in response to the Swift/BAT and Fermi/GBM detected GRB 250617B (Page et al., GCN 40760; Fermi GBM Team, GCN 40763). Targeted observations were performed by GOTO-North at 2025-06-18T01:03:23 (4.03 hours after the trigger). The observation consisted of 4x90s exposures in the GOTO L-band (400-700 nm).
Images were processed immediately after acquisition using the GOTO pipeline. Difference imaging was performed using deeper template observations.
We do not detect the optical afterglow of GRB 250617B (Page et al., GCN 40760; Moskvitin et al., 40761; Jelinek et al., 40762) down to a 3-sigma limiting magnitude of L > 20.3 AB mag.
Magnitudes were calibrated using ATLAS-REFCAT2 (Tonry et al. 2018) and are not corrected for Galactic extinction.
GOTO (https://goto-observatory.org) is a network of telescopes that is principally funded by the STFC and operated at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, Spain, and Siding Spring Observatory in NSW, Australia, on behalf of a consortium including the University of Warwick, Monash University, Armagh Observatory & Planetarium, the University of Leicester, the University of Sheffield, the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT), the University of Turku, the University of Portsmouth, the University of Manchester and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC).