TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40731
SUBJECT: sb25061207: Mephisto optical upper limits
DATE: 25/06/15 03:55:24 GMT
FROM: Brajesh Kumar at SWIFAR, YNU <brajesh(a)ynu.edu.cn>
Ziwei Li, Guowang Du, Haipeng Lei, Jianhui Lian, Haoyang He, Xingzhu Zou, Yu Pan, Xinlei Chen, Xufeng Zhu, Helong Guo, Tao Wang, Yuan Fang, Jinghua Zhang, Dezi Liu, Chenxu Liu, Shiyan Zhong, Edoardo Lagioia, Brajesh Kumar, Yuanpei Yang, Xiangkun Liu, Xiaowei Liu (all SWIFAR, YNU) report on behalf of the Mephisto Team:
We conducted simultaneous multi-band photometric observations of sb25061207 detected by SVOM/ECLAIRs (Zhang et al., GCN 40697) with the Multi-channel Photometric Survey Telescope (Mephisto) of Yunnan University, located at the Lijiang Observatory. Simultaneous u, g and v, r band observations of the field were initiated at 15:52:39 UTC on 2025-06-12 (~5.42 hours after the trigger) and three exposures of 300 seconds were acquired. In the stack images, no credible source was detected at the position of SVOM/VT (Li et al., GCN 40707), Swift/XRT (Evans et al., GCN 40711) and EP-FXT (Song et al., GCN 40718). The preliminary 3-sigma upper limits are listed below which are consistent with SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) (Becerra et. al., GCN 40723).
| UT Start |T-T0 (hr)|Band| EXP(s) |Lim-mag (AB)
|2025-06-12T15:52:39| 5.42 | u | 300.0*3 | >21.24
|2025-06-12T16:10:13| 5.71 | v | 300.0*3 | >21.31
|2025-06-12T15:52:38| 5.42 | g | 300.0*3 | >21.60
|2025-06-12T16:10:12| 5.71 | r | 300.0*3 | >21.83
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Mephisto (Multi-channel Photometric Survey Telescope) is a 1.6-m wide-field multi-channel telescope, the first of its type in the world, capable of imaging the same field of view in three optical bands simultaneously. It provides real-time, high-quality colors of stellar objects. The on-site telescope assemblage and commissioning were carried out in September 2022. The first light in all three channels was achieved on 2023 December 21.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40730
SUBJECT: IceCube alert 141029_8144692 retraction
DATE: 25/06/14 15:31:50 GMT
FROM: Erik Blaufuss at University of Maryland, College Park <blaufuss(a)umd.edu>
The IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports:
On 14 June 2025 at 09:14:04 UT IceCube issued an alert (https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/notices_amon_icecube_cascade/141029_8144692.amon) reporting the detection of a neutrino cascade candidate event with a high chance of being of astrophysical origin. Upon further examination by the IceCube collaboration, the event was found to be from a non-standard configuration that was intended to be excluded from alert selection
At the time of this alert, the detector was operating normally but taking data in a non-standard test configuration. Normally, these periods of operation are excluded from generating alerts, but an alert message was significantly delayed in transit from the detector site at the South Pole and arrived after resuming normal operations We apologize for any confusion this error may have caused.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometer neutrino detector operating at the geographic South Pole, Antarctica. The IceCube realtime alert point of contact can be reached at roc(a)icecube.wisc.edu
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40729
SUBJECT: Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor trigger 771596290/250614513 is not a GRB
DATE: 25/06/14 13:13:42 GMT
FROM: Cuán de Barra at UCD <cuan.debarra(a)ucdconnect.ie>
C.de Barra (University College Dublin) reports on behalf of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger 771596290/250614513 at 12:18:05.02 UT
on 14 June 2025, tentatively classified as a GRB, is in fact not due
to a GRB. This trigger is likely due to local particle activity."
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40727
SUBJECT: EP250612a / GRB 250612B: NOT optical observations of the afterglow candidate
DATE: 25/06/14 08:29:34 GMT
FROM: Antonio Martin-Carrillo at UCD,Space Science Group <antonio.martin-carrillo(a)ucd.ie>
A. de Ugarte Postigo (LAM), A. Martin-Carrillo (UCD), G. Corcoran (UCD), D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud), D. Xu (NAOC), L. Cotter (UCD), B. P. Gompertz (U. Birmingham), A. A. Djupvik (NOT), L. Fuglsang (NOT), report on behalf of a larger collaboration.
We observed the field of EP250612a / GRB 250612B detected by EP (Hua et al., GCN 40700) and Fermi (Fermi GBM team, GCN 40702), using the ALFOSC camera mounted on the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT). We obtained 12x100 s exposures in the SDSS r-band, starting at 23:19 UT on 2025-05-13 (1.952 days after the EP trigger).
At J2000 coordinates RA:15:18:36.667, DEC: -26:46:03.624 (error 0.5”), consistent with those by Li et al. (GCN 40716), the optical counterpart is detected in our stacked image with a preliminary magnitude:
r = 23.59 +/- 0.22 (AB).
The photometric calibration was performed using nearby stars from the Pan-STARRS catalog and the magnitudes are not corrected for Galactic extinction.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40726
SUBJECT: Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor trigger 771547945/250613953 is not a GRB
DATE: 25/06/14 00:57:35 GMT
FROM: sumanbala2210(a)gmail.com
S. Bala (USRA) reports on behalf of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger 771547945/250613953 at 22:52:20.54 UT
on 13 June 2025, tentatively classified as a GRB, is in fact not due
to a GRB. This trigger is likely due to local particles."
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40725
SUBJECT: Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor trigger 771541927/250613883 is not a GRB
DATE: 25/06/13 23:39:36 GMT
FROM: sumanbala2210(a)gmail.com
S. Bala (USRA) reports on behalf of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger 771541927/250613883 at 21:12:02.66 UT
on 13 June 2025, tentatively classified as a GRB, is in fact not due
to a GRB. This trigger is likely due to local particles.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40724
SUBJECT: sb25061218: SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) optical upper limits
DATE: 25/06/13 20:05:07 GMT
FROM: Alan Watson at UNAM <alan(a)astro.unam.mx>
Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Sarah Antier (OCA), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Fredd Alvarez (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Dalya Akl (AUS), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU) , Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM), and Jerome Rodriguez (CEA):
We imaged the field of the SVOM X-ray transient sb25061218 (Rodriguez et al., GCN 40712) using the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) telescope. We observed from 2025-06-13 06:18 to 10:34 UTC (from 9.7 to 14.0 hours after the trigger) and obtained 112 minutes of exposure in the i filter.
The data were reduced and coadded with the COLIBRÍ pipeline and analyzed with STDWeb/STDPipe (Karpov 2025). The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the Pan-STARRS DR1 catalog, is on the AB scale, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
In the stacked image, we do not detect any new source within the ECLAIRs source region reported by Rodriguez et al. (GCN 40712) to a formal 10-sigma limit of:
i > 23.0,
although we note that this is roughly the 50% completion limit of the Pan-STARRS DR1 catalog used to identify new sources.
We also performed image subtraction against Pan-STARRS DR2 at the position of the two XRT sources 1 and 2 reported by Evans et al. (GCN Circ. 40721) and see no evidence for optical counterparts to the same limit.
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.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40723
SUBJECT: sb25061207: SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) optical upper limit
DATE: 25/06/13 19:16:15 GMT
FROM: Rosa L. Becerra at Tor Vergata, Roma <rosa.becerra(a)roma2.infn.it>
Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Fredd Alvarez (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Dalya Akl (AUS), Sarah Antier (OCA), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM), L. Zhang (IHEP), and Y. D. Hu (GXU):
We imaged the field of the SVOM/ECLAIR sb25061207 (Zhang et al., GCN Circ. 40697)
using the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) telescope. We observed from 2025-06-13 03:49 to 05:52 UTC (from 17.36 to 19.41 hours after the trigger) and obtained 63 minutes of exposure in the r filter.
The data were reduced and coadded with the COLIBRÍ pipeline and analysed with STDWeb/STDPipe (Karpov 2025). 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 do not detect any new source at the EP/FXT position (Song et al., GCN Circ. 40718) or the optical candidate by SVOM/VT (Li et al. GCN Circ. 40717) down to the following 3-sigma limit:
r > 22.9
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.
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