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GCN Circular 40875

Subject
GRB 250628B: SVOM/VT optical upper limit
Date
2025-06-30T09:34:49Z (20 hours ago)
Edited On
2025-06-30T13:24:59Z (16 hours ago)
From
Huali Li at at NAOC, SVOM <lhl@nao.cas.cn>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Huali Li at at NAOC, SVOM <lhl@nao.cas.cn>
Via
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H. L. Li, Y. L. Qiu, L. P. Xin, C. Wu, X. H. Han, J. Wang, Y. Xu, P. P. Zhang, Z. H. Yao, Y. N. Ma,   W. J. Xie, Y. J. Xiao, H. B. Cai, L. Lan, J. S. Deng, J. Y. Wei (NAOC), J. Palmerio (CEA), D. Dornic (CPPM),J-G. Ducoin(CPPM)report on behalf of the SVOM/VT team.
 
SVOM/VT performed ToO follow-up observations on the GRB 250628B (SVOM burst-id sb25062804,  Dornic et al., GCN 40862) in the VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm) channels simultaneously. The observation started on 2025-06-28T20:33:10 UT,  ie. 4.06 hours after the SVOM T0 time. 

No uncatalogued sources are detected in single or stacked images at the position of the Swift/XRT (https://www.swift.ac.uk/SVOM/SVOM_FIELD00021/) and EP (Zhang et al., GCN 40874) candidates, compared to the Legacy survey. The 3 sigma upper limit magnitudes are derived as below:

Mid_time   |   Band     |    Exposure Time  |     Upper limit (AB)
5.8 hour       VT_B            50*70 sec             23.6 mag                         
5.8 hour       VT_R            49*70 sec             23.4 mag                           

Also no apparent variation is found for the catalogued sources that lie within the errorbox of the Swift/XRT (https://www.swift.ac.uk/SVOM/SVOM_FIELD00021/) and EP (Zhang et al., GCN 40874). 
 
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA, China), National Center for Space Studies (CNES, France) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, China), which is dedicated to observing gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena in the energetic universe. VT was jointly developed by Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), CAS and National astronomical observatories (NAOC),CAS.

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