GCN Circular 42254
Subject
GRB 251013C: ULL-ASTRO-MASTER detection of the optical afterglow with the LCO 40-cm telescope at Sutherland Observatory
Event
Date
2025-10-14T12:02:29Z (20 days ago)
From
Ismael Perez-Fournon at Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias <ipf@iac.es>
Via
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M. Quintana-Ansaldo, J. Basurto Merino, P.G. Berdayes, A. Caballero-Almagro, A. Cerón, M. Contreras, F. Díaz-Segado, T. Ferrer-Laviña, B. Gandolfi, V. Ghiraldo, J. Hernández Fung, L. Juliá-Maroto, E. Lekaroz-Urriza, M. Manzano García, E. Mejía-Martínez, J. Prieto Polo, M. Pulido-Torres, , A. Schenone-Zanuzzi, A. Selezneva, T. Tundidor Rodríguez, E. Urquijo-Rodríguez (all ULL), M. Abdul-Masih (IAC and ULL), and I. Pérez-Fournon (IAC and ULL).
Following the detection of GRB 251013C by Fermi (Fermi GBM team, GCN circ. 42221),
and SVOM (Rakotondrainibe et al., GCN circ. 42222), we observed the field with the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) 40-cm telescope (a Planewave Delta Rho 350 telescope equipped with a CMOS QHY600 camera) located at the LCO node at Sutherland Observatory (South Africa). The observation, a single exposure of 300 sec in the SDSS r filter, started on 2025-10-13 at 18:27:18 UT, about 47 minutes after the Fermi and SVOM trigger.
The optical counterpart detected by SVOM/VT (Palmerio et al., GCN circ. 42223) is
clearly detected in our image with a magnitude of r = 14.84 +/- 0.02 (AB), calibrated against PanSTARRS-1 DR2 and not corrected for galactic extinction.
This result confirms the rebrightening reported by Konno et al. (GCN circ. 42226).
Other optical and near-IR detections have been reported by Perez-Garcia et al. (GCN circ. 42225), Martin-Carrillo et al. (GCN circ. 42227), Masi (GCN circ. 42228), Palmerio et al. (GCN circ. 42229), Moskvitin et al. (GCN circ. 42230), Gompertz et al. (GCN circ. 42231), Watson et al. (GCN circ. 42241), López-Cámara et al. (GCN circ. 42242), Zhang et al. (GCN circ. 42248), and Brosio et al. (GCN circ. 42251).
A redshift of z = 0.572 has been measured by Martin-Carrillo et al. (GCN circ. 42227). GRB 251013C has also been detected by Swift-XRT (Evans et al., GCN circ. 42232), AstroSat (Arya et al., GCN circ. 42246), Einstein Probe (Wang et al., GCN circ. 42247), and ALMA Laskar et al. (GCN circ. 42243).
Based on observations made with the Las Cumbres Observatory’s education network telescopes that were upgraded through generous support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (program IAC2025B-010). These observations are part of a course in Astrophysical Techniques of the Master in Astrophysics of the Astrophysics Department of the University of La Laguna in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain).