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GCN Circular 42164

Subject
EP250911a: Koshka Zeiss-1000 Optical Upper Limit
Date
2025-10-08T08:38:27Z (a day ago)
From
Alina Volnova at IKI RAS <alinusss@gmail.com>
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A. Volnova (IKI), A. Novichonok (Petrozavodsk State University, KIAM), I. Nikolenko (INASAN), N. Pankov (HSE, IKI), A. Pozanenko (IKI) report on behalf of IKI-GRB-FuN:

We observed the localization region of the Fast X-ray Transient EP250911a (Liang et al., GCN 41788; Liang et al., GCN 41809) using the 1-meter Zeiss-1000 telescope of the Simeiz (Koshka) Observatory with the R-band. Observations were performed on Sep. 13, 14, and 16 in the presence of the full Moon. In the stacked frame of the three epochs we did not detect the optical afterglow (Quirola-Vasquez et al., GCN 41790; Angulo et al., GCN 41793; Lai et al., GCN 41801; Evans et al., GCN 41802; Moskvitin & Spiridonova, GCN 41805; Ma et al., GCN 41807). The photometry based on nearby PS1 stars (Lupton's transformation) is the following:

Date             UT start  t-T0         Exp.    Filter   OT   Err.     UL
                          (mid, days)   (n*s)                         (3sigma)
2025-09-13       22:44:37  2.60543      45*120      R      n/d  n/d     21.0
2025-09-14       19:41:15  3.52607      60*120      R      n/d  n/d     21.7
2025-09-16       20:58:57  5.54397      60*120      R      n/d  n/d     21.9
2025-09-13+14+16 22:44:37  4.08066      165*120     R      n/d  n/d     22.6
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