TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 42955 SUBJECT: GRB 251201B: Kilonova-Catcher optical afterglow detection DATE: 25/12/02 16:14:17 GMT FROM: Damien Turpin at CEA-Saclay dturpin-astro@hotmail.com
M. Freeberg (KNC), D. Turpin (CEA-Saclay/Irfu), C. Andrade(UMN), S. Antier (OCA/IJCLab), M. Coughlin (UMN), S. Karpov (FZU), P. Hello (IJCLAB), M. Pillas (IAP) on behalf of the GRANDMA/Kilonova-Catcher collaboration:
We observed the field of GRB 251201B detected by Swift/BAT (Moss et al., GCN 42924) and Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN 42923) with the GRANDMA citizen science project Kilonova-catcher (KNC). Our observations were performed with the iTelescope 72 located in Chile and operated by M. Freeberg. Our observations started at TGRB+8.4h and were taken with Rc filter.
In our stacked frames, subtracted from the Legacy Survey DR10 template image, we detect the optical counterpart reported by Swift/UVOT(Moss et al., GCN 42924, Kuin et al., GCN 42954), LCO/1m (Cerón et al., GCN 42929), MASTER (Buckley et al., GCN 42930), SVOM/VT (Li et al., GCN 42931).
We report our follow-up results in the table below:
+---------------+-----------+-----------+----------------+-------------+ | Tmid-TGRB (hr)| Exp (s) | Filter | Magnitude | Instrument | +===============+===========+===========+================+=============+ | 8.89 | 17 x 180s | Rc (Vega) | 20.33 +/- 0.09 | iT72 | +---------------+-----------+-----------+----------------+-------------+
All the data have been reduced by a single data processing pipeline, STDPipe (Karpov et al., 2022). Images obtained with the Johnson-Cousins filters were calibrated using the GAIA DR3 Synphot catalog.
We use the SkyPortal application (skyportal.io) to monitor our observational campaign (Coughlin et al. 2023).
GRANDMA is a worldwide telescope network (grandma.ijclab.in2p3.fr) devoted to the observation of transients in the context of multi-messenger astrophysics (Antier et al. 2020 MNRAS 497, 5518). Kilonova-Catcher (KNC) is the citizen science program of GRANDMA (http://kilonovacatcher.in2p3.fr/).
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