GCN Circular 42154
Subject
GRB 251007A: SVOM/C-GFT optical observations
Event
Date
2025-10-07T23:55:44Z (2 days ago)
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SVOM_group <svomgroup@bao.ac.cn>
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Chao WU (NAOC), Zhe Kang (CHO), Liping Xin(NAOC), Xuhui Han(NAOC), Pinpin Zhang (NAOC), Xiaomeng Lu (NAOC), Zhenwei Li (CHO), You Lv (CHO), Ruosong Zhang (NAOC), Yujie Xiao(NAOC), Yulei Qiu(NAOC), Jing Wang (NAOC), Jinsong Deng(NAOC), Lei Huang(NAOC), Jianyan Wei (NAOC) report on behalf of the SVOM/C-GFT team:
We observed the field of GRB 251007A detected by Swift/BAT (Ambrosi et al., GCN 42146) and Glowbug (Cheung et al., GCN 42151) with LATIOS on SVOM/C-GFT. Observations started at 2025-10-07T19:37:48 UTC, ~50 seconds after the trigger.
The optical counterpart reported by Swift/UVOT (Ambrosi et al., GCN 42146) is clearly detected in our i-band images. The magnitude is :
|[date-obs|mid-time] | Mid_t-T0(s) | exposure time (s) | band | mag (AB) | mag_err |
|---------------------|-------------|-------------------|------|----------|---------|
| 2025-10-07T19:37:53 | 55 | 10 | i | 16.41 | 0.13 |
The photometry was calibrated against the UCAC4 catalogue, and no correction for Galactic dust extinction was applied.
We thank the observation assistants Chunlei Guo and Shuai Liu at Jilin observatory for their excellent support.
The Chinese Ground Follow-up Telescope (C-GFT) for the SVOM mission is located at Jilin Station, Changchun Observatory, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS. It features two instruments: (1) CATCH at the Cassegrain focus with a 21 arcsec x 21 arcsec FOV for simultaneous g/r/i-band imaging, and (2) LATIOS, a 4k x 4k CMOS camera at the prime focus with a 1.28 deg x 1.28 deg FOV that images in g, r, and i bands via filter switching.