GCN Circular 42904
Subject
EP251130a: COLIBRÍ optical counterpart candidate
Event
Date
2025-11-30T15:18:49Z (a day ago)
Edited On
2025-12-01T18:10:24Z (9 hours ago)
From
Damien Dornic <ddornic@km3net.de>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Daniele Bjørn Malesani at Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute <daniele.malesani@nbi.ku.dk>
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Damien Dornic (CPPM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), Rosa L. Becerra (UNAM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Dalya Akl (NYUAD), Sarah Antier (IJCLAB), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Leonardo García García (UNAM), William H. Lee (UNAM), Kin Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Nikos Mandarakas (LAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Fredd Sánchez Álvarez (UNAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM) and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM):
We imaged the field of the EP251130a (Wu et al., GCN 42903) using the DDRAGO two-channel wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2025-11-30T12:09:17 to 12:28 UTC (from 1.02 to 1.34 hours after the trigger) and obtained 16 minutes of simultaneous exposure in the r and z filters.
The data were reduced, coadded and analysed with the COLIBRÍ pipeline. The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
In the stacked image, we detect an uncatalogued source at the coordinates: RA = 101.0205 deg, Dec = 27.3840 deg with an uncertainty of 0.5 arcsec, compatible with the EP/FXT position (Wu et al., GCN 42903), at preliminary magnitudes of:
r = 20.69 +/- 0.03
z = 19.45 +/- 0.03
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir and the COLIBRÍ and DDRAGO engineering teams.
COLIBRÍ is an astronomical observatory developed and operated jointly by France (AMU, CNES and CNRS) and Mexico (UNAM and SECIHTI). It is located at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico.