GCN Circular 41798
Subject
GRB 250910A / EP250910a: SVOM/VT afterglow confirmation
Event
Date
2025-09-11T15:27:28Z (9 months ago)
From
Huali Li at at NAOC, SVOM <lhl@nao.cas.cn>
Via
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H.L. Li (NAOC), Y.N. Ma, L.P. Xin, Y. L. Qiu, C. Wu, Z.H. Yao, X. H. Han, J. Wang, Y. Xu, P. P. Zhang, W. J. Xie, Y. J. Xiao, H. B. Cai, J. S. Deng, J. Y. Wei (NAOC), D. H. Zhao, J. Palmerio (CEA) report on behalf of the SVOM/VT team.
SVOM/VT performed an automatic slew on the burst triggered by SVOM/ECLAIRs (Ma et al., GCN 41769) and EP-WXT (Liu et al., GCN 41776). The observation with good image quality began at 2025-09-10T04:00:48 UTC, ie. 44 min post trigger in VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm) channels simultaneously.
A second ToO observation was performed to the field (Wu et al., GCN 41772; Li et al., GCN 41774; Garnichey et al., GCN 41777; Lipunov et al., GCN 41789), which stared at 2025-09-11T09:10:42 UTC, i.e., 1.24 day post trigger.
The NIR counterpart reported by VLT (Schneider et al., GCN 41794) in the errorbox of SVOM/MXT (Götz et al., GCN 41770), EP-FXT (Liu et al., GCN 41776) and Swift/XRT (https://www.swift.ac.uk/SVOM/SVOM_FIELD00036/) was detected in our stacked images in both channels. It was fading from our earliest observation at about 22.7+/-0.3 mag to 23.6+/-0.4 mag (1.27 days) in VT_R band.
Our photometry was not corrected for Galactic extinction.
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.