GCN Circular 43578
Subject
EP260131a: COLIBRÍ optical observations of the counterpart
Event
Date
2026-01-31T05:53:41Z (2 days ago)
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Alan Watson at UNAM <alan@astro.unam.mx>
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Fredd Sánchez Álvarez (UNAM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Dalya Akl (NYUAD), Sarah Antier (IJCLAB), 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), Asuka Kuwata (UNAM), Nikos Mandarakas (LAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM) report:
We imaged the field of the EP260131a (Ding et al., GCN Circ. 43574) using the DDRAGO two-channel wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2026-01-31 04:40 to 05:32 UTC (from 1.14 to 2.02 hours after the trigger) and obtained 39 minutes of simultaneous exposure in the r and z filters.
The data were reduced, coadded, calibrated, and analyzed 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 the stacked image, detect the candidate optical counterpart reported by Li et al. (GCN Circ. 43577) at preliminary magnitudes of:
r = 21.05 +/- 0.08,
z = 20.69 +/- 0.09.
Observations are ongoing.
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 M ártir, Baja California, Mexico.