GCN Circular 41392
Subject
GRB 250814A: detection of the afterglow candidate with Liverpool Telescope
Event
Date
2025-08-15T13:59:44Z (a month ago)
From
Amit Kumar at Royal Holloway - UoL/ U of Warwick, UK <amitkundu515@gmail.com>
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A. Kumar, J. R. Maund (RHUL), N. C. Sun (UCAS), W. X. Li, Y. N. Wang (NAOC), and K. Wiersema (Herts) report:
We observed the field of the Fermi/GBM and Swift/BAT GRB 250814A (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 41357; Caputo et al., GCN 41358), which is spatially coincident with the sub-threshold GW trigger S250814bg (LVK, GCN 41364), using the IO:O imager on the 2.0m Liverpool Telescope. Multi-band (B, g, V, r, i, and z bands) imaging was obtained between 2025-08-14 23:34:48.3 UT and 2025-08-15 01:29:02.2 UT (corresponding to ~15.99 and 17.90 hours post-trigger, respectively).
Based on our preliminary analysis, we detect the counterpart candidate in our stacked z-band image obtained ~16.86 hours post-trigger at RA = 20:25:13.8 and Dec = +48:23:56.5 (J2000), within the Swift-XRT localisation region (Salvaggio et al., GCN 41379); see also Karambelkar et al. (GCN 41377), Castro-Tirado et al. (GCN 41381), Ahumada et al. (GCN 41382) and Source 1 of D'Avanzo et al. (GCN 41391). No source is detected at this position in the B, g, V, r, and i bands. A summary of our observations and preliminary photometric results is provided below.
T_obs (start time) T_obs - T0 Exp Filter Mag
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2025-08-15T00:26:48.9 16.86 2x600 s z 21.3 ± 0.3
2025-08-14T23:34:48.3 15.99 600 s g >21.9
2025-08-14T23:45:18.2 16.16 2x600 s r >22.1
2025-08-15T00:06:03.3 16.51 2x600 s i >21.8
2025-08-15T00:47:35.3 17.21 2x600 s V >22.2
2025-08-15T01:08:24.4 17.55 3x600 s B >20.5
Photometric calibration was performed using stars from the Pan-STARRS (for g, r, i and z bands), USNO-B1 (for B band), and APASS (for V band) catalogues. The quoted magnitudes are not corrected for Galactic extinction in the direction of the GRB.
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