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GCN Circular 41682

Subject
EP250901a: Mondy, Assy and SAO RAS optical limits
Date
2025-09-03T20:14:49Z (9 days ago)
From
Alexander Moskvitin at SAO RAS <mosk@sao.ru>
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A. Moskvitin (SAO RAS), A. Pozanenko (IKI), E. Klunko (ISTP), 
V. Kim, M. Krugov (FAI), O. Spiridonova (SAO RAS) 
report on behalf of GRB follow-up team and IKI-GRB-FuN:

We observed the field of EP250901a (Song et al., GCNs 41627, 41651) 
with the 1.5m AZT-33IK telescope of the Solar Sayan Observatory 
(Mondy), 1.5m AZT-20 telescope of Assy Observatory and 
1.0m Zeiss-1000 telescope of SAO RAS during the night of September 1. 

Within the refined FXT error circle (Song et al., GCN 41651) 
we didn't detect any new objects down to the following limits.

UT_start  t_mid-T0, h  exp, s   filter  up.lim  telescope        FWHM 
13:51:06  2.250997     30 x 120 R       23.2     Mondy, AZT-33IK 2".0
16:17:59  4.837000     61 x 60  r       22.8(AB) Assy, AZT-20    2".6
16:57:33  5.231111     14 x 120 Rc      22.4     SAO, Zeiss-1000 2".1

These preliminary results are in an agreement with the limits 
from MASTER (Lipunov et al., GCN 41629) and Mephisto (Liu et al., 
GCN 41631).

In the stacked R band image of AZT-33IR within FXT error circle 
localization (Song et al., GCN 41651) we detected two objects, 
both presented in the PanSTARRS DR1 images and PS1 catalog, 
the 1st one is also visible in z-band image of the Legacy Survey DR10.

obj. R. A.       Decl. (J2000)  R_mag +/- err
#1   18:12:10.03 +18:42:25.0    22.5 +/- 0.2
#2   18:12:09.78 +18:42:28.3    23.2 +/- 0.3

Also in the stacked image of AZT-33IK we detected one object 
near the border of XRT circle (SWIFT J181210.9+184216; Evans et al., 
GCN 41644) with the coordinates of 
R. A. (J2000) = 18:12:11.02
Decl. (J2000) = +18:42:23.1 
with uncertainness of  +/- 0".4 in both coordinates,
and brightness of R = 22.39 +/- 0.16. 
This object is presented in the PanSTARRS DR1 images and catalog.

The field was calibrated with nearby stars from the PanSTARRS DR1 
catalog and not corrected for Galactic extinction.
RA            DEC           r       err      R       err  
273.042629860 18.705792060  18.284  0.004    18.048  0.009
273.048977320 18.703099150  17.400  0.004    17.204  0.008
273.046825830 18.696310020  19.130  0.017    18.940  0.017
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