GCN Circular 43312
Subject
GRB 260101A: COLIBRÍ optical observations
Event
Date
2026-01-03T06:27:01Z (2 days ago)
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Noémie Globus (UNAM), Sarah Antier (IJCLAB), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Dalya Akl (NYUAD), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Rosa L. Becerra (UNAM), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Nikos Mandarakas (LAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Fredd Sánchez Álvarez (UNAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM) and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM), report:
We observed the optical counterpart of the “New Year Burst”, GRB 260101A (Fermi GBM team, GCN Circ. 43284; Cenko et al., GCN Circ. 43285; Pérez-Fournon et al., GCN Circ. 43286; de Ugarte Postigo et al., GCN Circ. 43287; Beardmore et al., GCN Circ. 43289; Lipunov et al., GCN Circ. 43290; D'Avanzo et al., GCN Circ. 43291; SVOM/GRM team et al., GCN Circ. 43292; Saccardi et al., GCN Circ. 43293; Wang et al., GCN Circ. 43294; Hristov et al., GCN Circ. 43297) using the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2026-01-03 03:22 to 05:47 UTC (50.4 hours to 52.9 hours after the trigger) and obtained 105 minutes of simultaneous exposure in the r and z filters.
The data were reduced and coadded with the COLIBRÍ ASU pipeline. The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
In our stacked images, we detect a source at the position of the afterglow (Cenko et al., GCN Circ. 43285) at preliminary magnitudes of:
r = 22.11 +/- 0.11,
z = 21.47 +/- 0.09.
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir and the COLIBRÍ and DDRAGO engineering teams.
COLIBRÍ is an astronomical observatory developed and operated jointly by France (AMU, CNES and CNRS) and Mexico (UNAM and SECIHTI). It is located at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico.