GCN Circular 42420
Subject
EP251023a: OHP/T193 optical observations
Event
Date
2025-10-24T13:25:17Z (2 days ago)
From
Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe at LAM <nyavo.rakotobe@gmail.com>
Via
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N.A. Rakotondrainibe (LAM), C. Adami (LAM/Pytheas/AMU), E. Le Floc'h (CEA/Irfu), report on behalf of the MISTRAL GRB collaboration:
We carried out observations of EP251023a (Mohan et al., GCN 42411; Selezneva et al., GCN 42406; Lipunov et al., GCN 42405; Mandarakas et al., GCN 42400; Liu et al., GCN 42391; Li et al., GCN 42389; Wu et al., GCN 42388; Wortley et al., GCN 42387) using the T193cm telescope at Observatoire de Haute-Provence (France) equipped with the MISTRAL spectro-imager. We obtained 4 exposures of 15 min in the r-band at a midtime of 2025 10 24 03:17:52UT corresponding to T-T0 = 24.78 hours.
The afterglow is well detected in r’ and we measured the following preliminary magnitude:
r’ = 21.55+/-0.10 mag (AB)
The photometric calibration was performed using nearby stars from the PanSTARRS catalog and the magnitudes are not corrected for Galactic extinction. We used the STDWeb/STDPipe tools (Karpov 2025).
We acknowledge the excellent support from the Observatoire de Haute-Provence and in particular Jean Balcaen.