GCN Circular 40896
Subject
GRB 250702F: GOTO optical counterpart detection
Event
Date
2025-07-02T22:04:31Z (a year ago)
From
Amit Kumar at Royal Holloway - UoL/ U of Warwick, UK <amitkundu515@gmail.com>
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A. Kumar, D. O’Neill, B. P. Gompertz, R. Starling, K. Ackley, M. J. Dyer, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, B. Godson, D. Steeghs, D. K. Galloway, V. Dhillon, P. O'Brien, G. Ramsay, 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 250702F (Klingler et al., GCN 40894; Fermi GBM Team, GCN 40892). Targeted observations were performed by GOTO-North at 2025-07-02 21:33:58 (27.25 minutes post-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.
We detect the optical afterglow reported by Swift/UVOT (Klingler et al., GCN 40894) and Ondrejov D50 (Jelinek et al., GCN 40895) with an L-band magnitude of 17.12 ± 0.07 (AB).
Magnitudes were calibrated using ATLAS-REFCAT2 (Tonry et al. 2018) and are not corrected for Galactic extinction. Observations are ongoing.
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).