GCN Circular 43410
Subject
GRB 260114A: VLT/X-shooter redshift of the putative host galaxy
Event
Date
2026-01-15T09:07:12Z (11 days ago)
From
Yu-Han Yang at University of Rome Tor Vergata <yyang@roma2.infn.it>
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Yu-Han Yang (U Rome), Eleonora Troja (U Rome), and Rosa Becerra (UNAM) report:
We observed the field of GRB 260114A, detected by Swift (Eyles-Ferris et al., GCN 43396), Fermi (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 43395; E. Bissaldi et al. GCN 43400), GECAM-B (Ren et al., GCN 43402) and SVOM/GBM (SVOM/GRM team, GCN 43404), with the X-Shooter spectrograph on the ESO VLT UT3 (Melipal). Observations started at 13.8 hours after the GRB trigger, with a total exposure time of 4 × 600 s at an average airmass of ~1.1.
In the acquisition image no new uncatalogued source is detected. Several extended sources, also reported in the DESI Legacy Survey, are visible within the XRT error circle. For the brightest object with r~21.1 AB mag we derive a chance alignment of P_cc ~ 4%. Based on a preliminary analysis, we identify multiple emission features corresponding to Hα, Hβ, and the [O II] doublet with a common redshift of z~0.524.
We thank the staff at the VLT, especially T. Rivinius and L. Sbordone, for the rapid execution of these observations.