GCN Circular 42231
Subject
GRB 251013C: GOTO optical afterglow detection
Event
Date
2025-10-13T22:14:00Z (5 days ago)
From
Ben Gompertz at U of Birmingham <b.gompertz@bham.ac.uk>
Via
email
B. P. Gompertz, B. Godson, D. O'Neill, R. Starling, K. Ackley, M. J. Dyer, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, D. Steeghs, D. K. Galloway, V. Dhillon, G. Ramsay, P. O'Brien, K. Noysena, R. Kotak, R. P. Breton, L. K. Nuttall, and J. Casares report on behalf of the GOTO collaboration:
We report on optical observations with the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO; Steeghs et al. 2022, Dyer et al. 2024) in response to GRB 251013C (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 42221; Rakotondrainibe et al, GCN 42222). Targeted observations were taken at 2025-10-13 21:40:06 UT (4.1h post trigger). The observations consisted of 4x45s 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.
We detect the optical counterpart (Palmerio et al., GCN 42223; Perez-Garcia et al., GCN 42225; Konno et al., GCN 42226; Martin-Carrillo et al., GCN 42227; Masi, GCN 42228; Palmerio et al., GCN 42229; Moskvitin et al., GCN 42230) with an AB magnitude of L = 17.11 ± 0.02 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).