GCN Circular 43232
Subject
EP251222a: FTW optical and NIR observations
Event
Date
2025-12-24T14:24:05Z (2 days 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), Mitra Maleki (LMU), Brendan O'Connor (CMU), Daniel Gruen (LMU), and Antonella Palmese (CMU) report:
We observed the counterpart of EP251222a (Huang et al. GCN 43200, Li et al. GCN 43205, Guo et al. GCN 43216) 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 2025-12-23T21:27:09 UT (1.26 days after the trigger). We detect the counterpart in all bands. Using a template from the DESI Legacy Surveys, we measure an r-band magnitude of
r = 21.64 +/- 0.06 AB mag.
Our measurements are consistent with the reports by Li et al. (GCN 43205), Kumar et al. (GCN 43210), Malesani et al. (GCN 43211), and Lipunov et al. (GCN 43219).
The magnitude is calibrated against the PS1 catalog and not corrected for Galactic extinction.
We thank Michael Schmidt from the Wendelstein Observatory for obtaining these observations.