GCN Circular 42050
Subject
GRB 251001B: NOT optical observations
Event
Date
2025-10-02T07:25:01Z (24 days ago)
From
Antonio de Ugarte Postigo at LAM, CNRS <adeugartepostigo@gmail.com>
Via
email
A. de Ugarte Postigo (LAM), D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud), G. Corcoran (UCD), B. Schneider (LAM), B. P. Gompertz (Birmingham), A. Martin-Carrillo (UCD) and J. Maiz Apellaniz (IAA-CSIC) report:
We observed the field of GRB 251001B (Fermi GBM team, GCN 42038; Beardmore et al. GCN 42039) using the 2.5 m Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) equipped with ALFOSC. Observations started on 2 October 2025 at 02:37:23 UT (12.33 hr after the trigger) and consisted of 3x300 s and 5x200 s in the SDSS r and z bands, respectively.
The combined images reveal the presence of the afterglow identified by Gompertz et al. (GCN 42040; An et al. GCN 42041; Strausbaugh & Cucchiara GCN 42043; O'Neill et al. GCN 42046) at a magnitude of r = 21.54 +/- 0.06 (AB) calibrated against field stars of the Pan-STARRS catalogue and not corrected by Galactic extinction.