GCN Circular 42115
Subject
GRB 251005C: GOTO optical upper limits
Date
2025-10-05T18:48:41Z (4 days ago)
Edited On
2025-10-05T20:17:16Z (4 days ago)
From
Ben Gompertz at U of Birmingham <b.gompertz@bham.ac.uk>
Edited By
Vidushi Sharma at NASA GSFC/UMBC <vidushi.sharma@nasa.gov> on behalf of Ben Gompertz at U of Birmingham <b.gompertz@bham.ac.uk>
Via
email
B. P. Gompertz, D. O’Neill, G. Ramsay, P. O’Brien, R. Starling, K. Ackley, M. J. Dyer, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, A. Kumar, B. Godson, D. Steeghs, D. K. Galloway, V. Dhillon, K. Noysena, R. Kotak, R. P. Breton, L. K. Nuttall, and J. Casares report on behalf of the GOTO collaboration:
We report on observations with the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO; Steeghs et al. 2022, Dyer et al. 2024) in response to GRB 251005C (Page et al., GCN 42113). A targeted observation was performed at 17:48:32 (1.7 hours after trigger), consisting of 4x90s exposures in the GOTO L-band (400-700 nm). Images were processed immediately after acquisition using the GOTO pipeline. Difference imaging was performed using deeper template observations of the same pointings.
We find no new optical sources consistent with the Swift/XRT localisation (Goad et al., GCN 42116) to a 3-sigma limiting AB magnitude of L > 19.65 mag.
Magnitudes were calibrated using ATLAS-REFCAT2 (Tonry et al. 2018) and are not corrected for Galactic extinction.
GOTO (https://goto-observatory.org) is a network of telescopes that is principally funded by the STFC and operated at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, Spain, and Siding Spring Observatory in NSW, Australia, on behalf of a consortium including the University of Warwick, Monash University, Armagh Observatory & Planetarium, the University of Leicester, the University of Sheffield, the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT), the University of Turku, the University of Portsmouth, the University of Manchester and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC).