TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 36693 SUBJECT: EP240617a: BOOTES-6/DPRT optical upper limit DATE: 24/06/18 21:56:11 GMT FROM: Alberto Castro-Tirado at Inst.de Astro. de Andalucia ajct@iaa.es
I. Perez-Garcia, E. Fernandez-Garcia, M.D. Caballero-Garcia, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, S. Guziy, S.-Y. Wu and A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC, Granada), P. J. Meintjes and H. J. van Heerden (UFS, South Africa), A. Martin-Carrillo and L. Hanlon (UCD, Ireland), M. Gritsevich (Univ. of Helsinki), D. R. Xiong (Yunnan Observatories of CAS) and C. J. Perez del Pulgar (UMA, Malaga), on behalf of a larger collaboration, report:
Following the detection of the fast X-ray transient EP240617a (a likely GRB) by the Einstein Probe (Zhou et al. GCNC 36691, Yang et al. GCNC 36692), the BOOTES-6/DPRT 0.6m robotic telescope at Boyden Observatory in Maselspoort (South Africa) observed the fast X-ray transient location starting on June 18, 19:59 UT (~ 31.6 h after trigger) in different optical bands. No new optical source is detected on the co-added images (clear-filter) within the EP/WXT error box down to 20.4 mag.
We thank the staff at Boyden Observatory for their excellent support.
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