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GCN Circular 41275

Subject
EP250807a: COLIBRÍ optical upper limit
Date
2025-08-08T06:07:18Z (18 days ago)
Edited On
2025-08-11T13:43:57Z (15 days ago)
From
globus@astro.unam.mx
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Alan Watson at UNAM <alan@astro.unam.mx>
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Noémie Globus (UNAM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Dalya Akl (AUS), Sarah Antier (OCA), Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU) , Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Fredd Sánchez Alvarez (UNAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM) report:

We imaged the field of the EP X-ray transient EP250807a using the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2025-08-08 04:38 to 04:57 UTC (from 5.12 to 5.44 hours after the trigger) and obtained 16 minutes of exposure in the i-band filter.

The data were reduced and coadded with the COLIBRÍ pipeline and analysed with STDWeb/STDPipe (Karpov 2025). The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.

In the stacked image, we do not detect any new source in the WXT uncertainty region, either in the direct image or after subtracting a Pan-STARRS DR2 template, down to the following 5-sigma limit:

i > 21.67

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.
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