GCN Circular 42242
Subject
GRB 251013C: SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) detection of the optical counterpart
Event
Date
2025-10-14T03:33:15Z (3 days ago)
From
Diego López-Cámara at Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM <diego@correo.nucleares.unam.mx>
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Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Dalya Akl (NYUAD), Sarah Antier (OCA), Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU) , Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Leonardo García-García (UNAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Fredd Sánchez Álvarez (UNAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM) report:
We imaged the field of the SVOM GRB 251013C (Rakotondrainibe et al., GCN Circ. 42222) using the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) telescope. We obtained a 60 seconds exposure in the r filter starting at 2025-10-14 02:18 (8.65 hours after the trigger).
The image was analyzed with STDWeb/STDPipe (Karpov 2025). The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the PanSTARRS catalog, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
We detected the optical counterpart, (Palmerio et al., GCN Circ. 42223; Perez-Garcia et al., GCN Circ. 42225; Konno et al., GCN Circ. 42226; Martin-Carrillo et al., GCN Circ. 42227; Masi et al., GCN Circ. 42228; Palmerio et al., GCN Circ. 42229; Moskvitin et al., GCN Circ. 42230; Gompertz et al., GCN Circ. 42231; Lipunov et al., GCN Circ. 42235; and Garnavich et al., GCN Circ. 42240; Watson et al. GCN Circ. 42241) with a preliminary magnitude of:
r = 18.50 +/- 0.03
Compared to the observation reported by Garnevich (GCN Circ. 42240), our observation suggests an abrupt fading between 6.4 and 8.7 hours.
Further observations and analysis are ongoing.
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir and the COLIBRÍ and DDRAGO engineering teams.
COLIBRÍ is an astronomical observatory developed and operated jointly by France (AMU, CNES and CNRS) and Mexico (UNAM and SECIHTI). It is located at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico.