GCN Circular 43221
Subject
EP251220a: CrAO ZTSh optical observations
Event
Date
2025-12-23T18:19:15Z (3 days ago)
From
Alina Volnova at IKI RAS <alinusss@gmail.com>
Via
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A. A. Volnova (IKI), V. V. Rumyantsev (CrAO), A. S. Pozanenko (IKI), N. S. Pankov (HSE, IKI) report on behalf of IKI-GRB-FuN:
We observed the field of the fast X-ray transient EP251220a detected by EP/WXT (Liu et al., GCN 43162) with the ZTSh 2.6m telescope of CrAO taking several 120-second frames in R-band. The observations started on Dec. 22 at UT 20:32:36, i.e., ~ 2.5 days after the EP/WXT trigger. In the stacked image we detect the optical counterpart reported previously (Sánchez Álvarez et al., GCN 43167; Kumar et al., GCN 43169; Rakotondrainibe et al., GCN 43170; Busmann et al., GCN 43181; van Hoof et al., GCN 43182; An et al., GCN 43184; Passaleva et al., GCN 43185). Preliminary photometry and observational details are the following:
Date UT start t-T0 Exp. Filter Obj. Err. UL Site/Telescope
(mid,days) (n*s) (3sigma)
2025-12-22 20:32:36 2.51642 17*120 R 22.55 0.20 22.9 CrAO/ZTSh
The photometry is based on several nearby stars from the USNO-B1 catalogue (R2 magnitudes) and is not corrected for the Galactic extinction.