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GCN Circular 41965

Subject
GRB 250920C: TRT optical observation
Date
2025-09-24T13:37:17Z (4 days ago)
From
Zipei Zhu at NAOC <zpzhu@nao.cas.cn>
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Z.P. Zhu (NAOC), K. Noysena, K. Chanchaiworawit, S. Tinyanont (NARIT), S.Y. Fu (HUST), L.B. He, X. Liu, J. An, S.Q. Jiang, D. Xu (NAOC) report on behalf of a large collaboration:

We observed the field of GRB 250920C (Fermi GBM team, GCN 41903

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; Gupta et al., GCN 41904; Mailyan & Meegan, GCN 41917; Gupta et al., GCN 41924; Wang et al., GCN 41929; Panteleeva et al., GCN 41957 ), using the 0.7-m telescope of the Thai Robotic Telescope network (TRT), located at New South Wales, Australia (SBO). Observations started at 18:21:14 UTC on 2025-09-20, i.e., ~ 2.9 hours after the Swift/BAT trigger and a series of frames in the R band were obtained.

The optical afterglow (Wortley et al., GCN 41907

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; Strausbaugh et al., GCN 41911; Ghosh et al., GCN 41913; Kuin et al., GCN 41920; Mohan et al., GCN 41925; Sanchez-Ramirez et al., GCN 41928; Guiffreda et al., GCN 41943; de Ugarte Postigo et al., GCN 41951; de Wet et al., GCN 41952; Izzo et al., GCN 41955; Zheng & Filippenko, GCN 41956; ) was clearly detected in our stacked R-band frame with a brightness of 18.87 +/- 0.02, calibrated with Pan-STARRS DR2 catalog and not corrected for Galactic extinction.

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