GCN Circular 43499
Subject
EP260119a: Mondy and SAO RAS optical upper limits
Event
Date
2026-01-22T10:50:53Z (3 days ago)
From
Alina Volnova at IKI RAS <alinusss@gmail.com>
Via
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N. Pankov (IKI), A. Moskvitin (SAO RAS), A. Volnova (IKI), O. Spiridonova (SAO RAS), E. Klunko (ISTP), A. Pozanenko (IKI) report on behalf of the IKI-GRB-FuN collaboration:
We observed the field of the EP260119a (Jiang et al., GCN 43447; GCN 43465; Cheng et al., GCN 43449) at the redshift of z ~ 5.47 (Corcoran et al., GCN 43469) using the AZT-33IK telescope of the Mondy observatory starting on 2026-01-20 (UT) 18:52:22 and 2026-01-21 (UT) 19:10:23, and the Zeiss-1000 of the SAO RAS starting on 2026-01-21 (UT) 03:05:44.
In the stacked frame of each observational epoch we do not detect the optical source reported previously (Fortin et al., GCN 43450; GCN 43455; Eyles-Ferris et al., GCN 43452; Moskvitin and Spiridonova, GCN 43463; Liu et al., GCN 43464; Ma et al., GCN 43466; Zheng et al., GCN 43468; Corcoran et al., GCN 43469; Bochenek and Perley, GCN 43472; Pankov et al., GCN 43476; Jin et al., GCN 43496). Preliminary photometry and observation details are listed below:
Date UT start t-T0 Exp. Filter Mag MagErr. UL Site/Telescope
(mid,days) (n*s) (3sigma)
2026-01-20 18:52:22 1.80804 45x120 I n/d n/d 22.3 Mondy/AZT-33IK
2026-01-21 03:05:44 2.13449 8*300 Ic n/d n/d 21.9 SAO RAS/Zeiss-1000
2026-01-21 19:10:23 2.82417 52*120 I n/d n/d 21.7 Mondy/AZT-33IK
Photometric data are based on nearby SDSS stars (I-magnitudes obtained using the 2005 Lupton transform) and not corrected for Galactic extinction.