GCN Circular 44400
Subject
The EP-WXT trigger 01709258652: Mondy optical observations
Date
2026-04-23T13:31:19Z (4 months ago)
From
Alina Volnova at IKI RAS <alinusss@gmail.com>
Via
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M. Chutchikova (HSE), A. Volnova (IKI), A. Pozanenko (IKI), E. Klunko (ISTP), N. Pankov (IKI) report on behalf of IKI-GRB-FuN:
We observed the EP-WXT trigger 01709258652 (Yang et al., GCN 43849) with the AZT-33IK 1.5m telescope of the Mondy observatory starting on 2026-02-26 (UT) 21:07:17, i.e., ~8 hours after the trigger, and taking several 120-seconds frames in the R band. The photometry of suggested flare star LP 435-538 (High Proper Motion Star; Yang et al., GCN 43849; Wu et al., GCN 43857; Fang et al., GCN 43889) do no exhibit any significant variability within 1 hour of our observations.
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)
2026-02-26 21:07:17 0.32452 30*120 R 14.10 0.01 23.2 Mondy/AZT-33IK
The photometry is based on nearby USNO-B1.0 stars (R2-magnitudes) and is not corrected for Galactic extinction. Our measured R magnitude is consistent with the photometry of the USNO-B1.0 star 1099-00207147 (R2 = 14.16) corresponding by the coordinates to LP 435-538.