GCN Circular 43432
Subject
EP260116a: Liverpool Telescope upper limits
Event
Date
2026-01-16T23:35:52Z (9 days ago)
From
A. Bochenek at Liverpool John Moores University <a.m.bochenek@2023.ljmu.ac.uk>
Via
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A. Bochenek and D. A. Perley (LJMU) report:
We observed the field of the fast X-ray transient EP260116a (Wang et al., GCN 43424) using the IO:O optical camera on the 2m robotic Liverpool Telescope. We obtained 5x100s exposures in the SDSS r and i filters starting at 2026-01-16 21:52:40 UT, approximately 21.7 hours post trigger.
Two exposures taken in i-band had to be discarded due to poor seeing. We performed image subtraction of the stacked images of remaining exposures in each filter against Pan-STARRS using PSF matching with the help of PSFEx. We do not detect any new objects within the EP/WXT error region of the transient (Wang et al., GCN 43424). The 3-sigma limiting magnitude on the stacked images is r > 22.5 mag and i > 21.9 mag.