GCN Circular 41946
Geoffrey Mo (Caltech/Carnegie), Tomas Ahumada (Caltech), Viraj Karambelkar (Columbia), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Robert Stein (UMD), Danielle Frostig (CfA), Nathan Lourie (MIT), Robert Simcoe (MIT), and Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech) report:
We observed the field of GRB 250920B (Fermi GBM team, GCN 41897; Gupta et al., GCN 41898; Page et al., GCN 41909; Evans et al., GCN 41910; Sonawane et al., GCN 41919; Sakamoto et al., GCN 41923; Cheung et al., GCN 41937) in the near-infrared J band with the Palomar 1-m telescope, equipped with the 1.2-square degree WINTER camera (Lourie et al. 2020, Frostig et al. 2024).
Observations began at 2025-09-21T02:30:43.439 UTC in the J band (~17.7 hours after the GRB trigger), consisting of 15 x 120 s exposures. The images were processed using the WINTER data reduction pipeline implemented with mirar (https://github.com/winter-telescope/mirar, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13352565).
We do not detect a source at the optical candidate location (Lipunov et al., GCN 41901; Wu et al., GCN 41908; Hall et al., GCN 41914; Kuin et al., GCN 41915; Pankov et al., GCN 41931; Reguitti et al., GCN 41932). We obtain the following 5-sigma upper limit: J ~ 18.9 mag (AB).
WINTER (Wide-field INfrared Transient ExploreR) is a partnership between MIT and Caltech, housed at Palomar Observatory, and funded by NSF MRI, NSF AAG, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.