GCN Circular 43616

Subject

GRB 260204A: LCO optical upper limits

Event

GRB 260204A

Date

2026-02-04T21:16:28Z (5 days ago)

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D. Turpin (CEA/Irfu), A. Saccardi (CEA/Irfu), D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud), B. Cordier (CEA/Irfu), report on behalf of the SVOM mission team:

We observed the field of GRB 260204A (Pillas et al., GCN 43613Loading...
 
 ) with the LCO 1-m telescope at Siding Spring Observatory equipped with the Sinistro instrument.

Our observation started on 2026-02-04 at 15:10:42 UT (about 22 min after the trigger) and we obtained 3x200 s in each of the SDSS r and Pan-STARRS z filters. In the stacked image, we do not detect any new source within the SVOM/ECLAIRs error box.

We measure the following upper limit calibrated against the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog, and not corrected for Galactic extinction:

r > 20.3 AB (5-sigma, mid-time 25.7 min after the trigger);
z > 19.4 AB (5-sigma, mid-time 38.4 min after the trigger).

This project is funded by the SVOM collaboration.