TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 38115 SUBJECT: EP241107a: AKO Optical Afterglow Detection DATE: 24/11/07 16:22:43 GMT FROM: Mohammad Odeh at Al Khatim Observatory M44 mshodeh@gmail.com
Mohammad Odeh (Al-Khatim Observatory, AKO, operated by the International Astronomical Center in Abu Dhabi, UAE), and Shaikha Alshamsi, Nuha Manal Pattani, and Nidhal Guessoum (American University of Sharjah, UAE), report:
We observed the field of EP241107a detected by EP-WXT (Zhou et al., GCN 38112), with our 0.36m f/7.7 robotic telescope. The observation started on 07 November 2024 at 15:40 (UT), 90 minutes from the trigger.
We obtained multiple 180-sec exposures in Ic filter. We detected uncatalogued object at:
R.A. (J2000): 02:20:02.45
Dec. (J2000): +03:20:02.2
The following observation was calculated using Atlas catalogue as a reference:
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ObsTime (mid), Exposure (sec), Filter, Mag
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2024-11-07T15:53:50Z, 9x180s (stacked), Ic, 17.85 +/- 0.18
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Using The Dark Energy Survey (DES) catalogue, there is a galaxy at this location of magnitude i=22.6, which could be the hosting galaxy.
The magnitude is not corrected for galactic extinction.
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