TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 41969 SUBJECT: GRB 250924A: Mondy optical observations, afterglow fading DATE: 25/09/24 16:19:46 GMT FROM: Nicolai Pankov at HSE, IKI RAS colinsergesen@gmail.com
N. Pankov (HSE, IKI), A. Pozanenko (IKI), A. Moskvitin (SAO RAS), E. Klunko (ISTP) report on behalf of GRB-IKI-FuN:
We observed the field of GRB 250924A detected by Swift (Siegel et. al, GCN 41897) with the AZT-33IK 1.5m telescope of the Sayan Solar Observatory (Mondy). We are obtaining the images of the GRB field in the R-filter. The optical afterglow initially detected by Swift/UVOT (Siegel et. al, GCN 41897) and further observed by (Becerra et. al, GCN 41960; Schneider et. al, GCN 41963; Freeberg et. al, GCN 41968) is clearly visible in the stacked image of first 10 obtained images. Preliminary photometry is as follows:
Date UTstart Exptime t-T0 Filter OT Err. UL (nxs) (mid, days) (3sigma) 2025-09-24 14:37:48 10x120 0.27036 R 21.47 0.09 22.5
The photometry was calibrated against nearby USNO-B1.0 stars (R2-mags) and not corrected for the Galactic extinction. We note that the afterglow has faded at ~3.7 mag in ~6.5 hr since detection. Further observations are ongoing.
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