TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 40033 SUBJECT: GRB 250402A: NUTTelA-TAO Early Optical Limits DATE: 25/04/03 19:02:42 GMT FROM: Toktarkhan Komesh at Nazarbayev University toktarkhan.komesh@nu.edu.kz
T. Komesh (NU), Z. Abdullayev (NU), Z. Maksut (NU), D. Berdikhan (NU), B. Grossan (UCB, NU), M. Krugov (FAI) and E. Abdikamalov (NU) report on behalf of the Energetic Cosmos Laboratory:
The Nazarbayev University Transient Telescope at Assy-Turgen Astrophysical Observatory (NUTTelA-TAO) pointed at GRB250402A on receipt of an automated GCN / SVOM position alert, observing in Sloan g' and r' bands, with the Burst Simultaneous Three-Channel Imager (BSTI; Grossan, Kumar & Smoot 2019, JHEA, 32, 14).
We started observations at 23:10:30 UT on 2025-04-02, 154 seconds after the SVOM/ECLAIRs trigger (X. Chen et al., GCN 40014). Observations were made in partially cloudy conditions. No source consistent with the SVOM/VT (L. P. Xin et al., GCN 40015) was detected. We report the following results:
start time t-t0(s) end time UL g' UL r' exposure_time (s) -------------------------------------------------------------- 23:10:30 154 23:11:30 18.01 18.35 60 23:12:13 257 23:22:13 18.58 18.67 600
t is the middle time, t0 is the SVOM/ECLAIRs trigger time, t-t0 is given in seconds. UL gives the 5 sigma upper limit sensitivity in magnitudes, for images of the given exposure time. Calibration was done with 4 Pan-STARRS catalog stars on our images. No color or other corrections were applied to the values above.
---------------------------------- NU = Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan UCB = University of California, Berkeley, USA FAI = Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Kazakhstan
This research has been funded by the Science Committee of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Grant No. AP26103591). The NUTTelA-TAO Team acknowledges the support of the staff of the Assy-Turgen Astrophysical Observatory, Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Almaty, Kazkhstan.
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