TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 39417 SUBJECT: GRB 250221A: GRANDMA/TAROT Detection DATE: 25/02/22 03:00:44 GMT FROM: Heather N. Muenter at UMN <hmuenter000@gmail.com> H. Muenter (UMN), F. Magnani (CPPM), S. Antier (OCA/IJCLAB), Y. Rajabov (UBAI), C. Andrade (UMN), A. Klotz (IRAP), C. Limonta, Q. Andre, A. Durroux (OCA), M. Coughlin (UMN),S. Karpov (FZU), P. Hello (IJCLAB), P-A. Duverne (APC), T. Pradier (Unistra/IPHC), N. Guessoum (AUS) on behalf of the GRANDMA collaboration: We imaged the field of GRB 250221A detected by SWIFT (GCN 39396) with the TAROT robotic telescope located at the European Southern Observatory, La Silla observatory, Chile. The first image was taken 45 s post T0 and without filter is trailed (see the description in Klotz et al., 2006, A&A 451, L39). We detect the UVOT optical transient at r-mag 17 +/- 0.1 mag, 1.95 min post T0. We continuously detected the source for the first 30 min. All the data have been reduced by a single data processing pipeline, STDPipe (Karpov et al., 2022). Images obtained in Johnson Cousin filters were calibrated using the Gaia DR3 and PS1 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/). View this GCN Circular online at https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/39417. --- To unsubscribe, open this link in a web browser: https://gcn.nasa.gov/unsubscribe/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJlbWFpbCI6InZzbmV0LW...