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GCN Circular 44352

Subject
EP-WXT trigger 01709260303: KAIT optical observations
Date
2026-04-20T06:33:01Z (3 days ago)
From
Weikang Zheng at UC Berkeley <weikang@berkeley.edu>
Via
email
WeiKang Zheng (UCB), Xuhui Han (NAOC), Pinpin Zhang (NAOC) and

Alexei V. Filippenko (UCB) report on behalf of the KAIT GRB team:


The 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), located at

Lick Observatory, automatically responded to the EP-WXT trigger

01709260303 (Yin et al., GCN 44350) starting at 10:53 UT, about

3.5 hours after the trigger. A set of B,V,R,I and clear (roughly R)

filter images were obtained and lasted for ~0.9 hours. We performed

photometry on the suggested flare star Gaia DR3 4524306802880186496

and did not find obvious variability on its brightness at 0.1 mag

level.

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