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GCN Circular 42870

Subject
GRB 251126A: further SAO RAS optical observations
Date
2025-11-28T12:46:09Z (a day ago)
From
Alexander Moskvitin at SAO RAS <mosk@sao.ru>
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A. Moskvitin (SAO RAS), V. Goranskij (SAI MSU, SAO RAS), 
V. S. Shergin (SAO RAS), A. A. Volnova (IKI), A. S. Pozanenko (IKI)
report on behalf of IKI-GRB-FuN and GRB follow-up team.

We observed the field of the Swift GRB 251126A (Caputo et al., 
GCN 42843; Evans, GCN 42845; Goad et al., GCN 42851; Page et al., 
GCN 42860) with the Zeiss-1000 1m telescope of the SAO RAS 
on November 27/28 night. We obtained two series of 300 sec. images
in Rc band under a good weather conditions and seeing (FWHM) ~1".5.

The optical afterglow (Swain, GCN 42844; Fu et al., GCN  42848; 
Reguitti et al., GCN 42849; Broens et al., GCN 42850; Anguloet al., 
GCN 42855; Pulido-Torres et al; GCN 42856; Gupta et al., GCN 42857; 
Cotter et al., GCN 42858; Seki et al., GCN 42859; Volnova et al., 
GCN 42861; Breeveld and Caputo, GCN 42863; Gupta et al., GCN 42864;
Burkhonov et al., GCN 42866; Maksut et al., GCN 42868) is clearly 
detected in the stacked frames. The preliminary results are as 
following.

Date        UT start  t-T0       Exp.    Filter  OT     Err.  UL      
                     (mid,days)  (n*s)                       (3sigma)
                     
2025-11-27  20:20:22  1.07076    11*300  Rc      22.02  0.04  24.1    
2025-11-27  23:31:00  1.19809     8*300  Rc      22.24  0.07  23.8       


The photometry is based on nearby stars from the USNO-B1 catalogue 
(R2 magnitudes)and is not corrected for the Galactic extinction.
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