GCN Circular 42610
Subject
GRB 251106A: Kilonova-Catcher optical upper limit
Event
Date
2025-11-07T08:48:49Z (a day ago)
Edited On
2025-11-07T18:15:45Z (19 hours ago)
From
Damien Turpin at CEA-Saclay <dturpin-astro@hotmail.com>
Edited By
Vidushi Sharma at NASA GSFC/UMBC <vidushi.sharma@nasa.gov> on behalf of Damien Turpin at CEA-Saclay <dturpin-astro@hotmail.com>
Via
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M. Freeberg (KNC), D. Turpin (CEA-Saclay/Irfu), C. Andrade(UMN), S. Antier (OCA/IJCLab), M. Coughlin (UMN), S. Karpov (FZU), P. Hello (IJCLAB), M. Pillas (IAP) on behalf of the GRANDMA/Kilonova-Catcher collaboration:
We observed the field of GRB 251106A detected by SVOM (Antier et al., GCN 42605), Swift/BAT-GUANO (Delaunay et al., GCN 42608) and Fermi/GBM subthreshold (Godwin et al., GCN 42608) with the GRANDMA citizen science project Kilonova-catcher (KNC). Our observations were performed with a TEC160FL telescope operated by M. Freeberg. Our observations started at TGRB+5.4hr and were taken with sdss gr filters.
In our stacked frames, subtracted from the PanSTARRS DR2 template image, we do not detect the optical counterpart reported by the SVOM/COLIBRI (FM-GFT) (Angulo et al., GCN 42607).
We report our follow-up results in the table below:
+---------------+-----------+---------+----------------+-------------+
| Tmid-TGRB (hr)| Exp (s) | Filter | Magnitude | Instrument |
+===============+===========+=========+================+=============+
| 5.77 | 15 x 180s | r (AB) | 19.7 (5 sigma) | TEC160FL |
| 6.58 | 15 x 180s | g (AB) | 20.0 (5 sigma) | TEC160FL |
+---------------+-----------+---------+----------------+-------------+
All the data have been reduced by a single data processing pipeline, STDPipe (Karpov et al., 2022). Images obtained with the sloan filters were calibrated using the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog.
We use the SkyPortal application (skyportal.io) to monitor our observational campaign (Coughlin et al. 2023).
GRANDMA is a worldwide telescope network (grandma.ijclab.in2p3.fr) devoted to the observation of transients in the context of multi-messenger astrophysics (Antier et al. 2020 MNRAS 497, 5518). Kilonova-Catcher (KNC) is the citizen science program of GRANDMA (http://kilonovacatcher.in2p3.fr/).