GCN Circular 42744
Subject
GRB 251117A: FTW Observations of Swift candidate X-ray sources
Event
Date
2025-11-18T20:56:30Z (10 months ago)
From
Malte Busmann at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München <m.busmann@physik.lmu.de>
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Malte Busmann (LMU), Xander J. Hall (CMU), Brendan O'Connor (CMU), Daniel Gruen (LMU), and Antonella Palmese (CMU) report:
We observed the candidate Swift X-ray sources GRB 251117a_X6 and X7 (Evans et al., GCN 42730), as potential counterparts to GRB 251117A (Fermi GBM team, GCN 42719; Airasca et al., GCN 42729; Wang et al., GCN 42731; DeLaunay et al., GCN 42732; Arya et al., GCN 42740) with the Three Channel Imager (3KK) at the Fraunhofer Telescope at Wendelstein Observatory (FTW) in the r, i and J band simultaneously for 10 x 180 s starting at 2025-11-18T17:36:17 UT (1.22 days after the trigger).
We performed difference imaging with archival images from Legacy Survey and do not detect any new sources down to
r > 23.9 AB mag (3 sigma).
The magnitudes are calibrated against the PS1 catalog and not corrected for Galactic extinction.
We thank Michael Schmidt from the Wendelstein Observatory for obtaining these observations.