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GCN Circular 43632

Subject
GRB 260131A/B: Mondy and Terskol optical observations
Date
2026-02-07T15:36:31Z (11 hours ago)
From
Alina Volnova at IKI RAS <alinusss@gmail.com>
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A. Volnova (IKI), E. Klunko (ISTP), I. Sokolov (INASAN, KIAM), N. Pankov (IKI), A. Pozanenko (IKI) report on behalf of IKI-GRB-FuN:

We observed the field of GRB 260131A/B (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 43579; Sugai et al., GCN 43580; Roberts et al., GCN 43585; Frederiks et al., GCN 43590; Luo et al., GCN 43591; Jiang et al., GCN 43600; Li et al., GCN 43605) with the AZT-33IK 1.5m telescope of the Mondy observatory on Feb. 4 and 5, and with the 2-meter Zeiss-2000 telescope of the Terskol observatory on Feb. 4 taking several frames in the R band. The optical counterpart reported by Gompertz et al., GCN 43586; Lee et al., GCN 43587; Saccardi et al., GCN 43595; García García et al., GCN 43599, Shi et al., GCN 43601; Sanchez-Ramirez et al., GCN 43604; Jayaraman et al., GCN 43606; Zhu et al., GCN 43607; Zheng et al., GCN 43609; Adami et al., GCN 43610, is detected in the stacked frame of every epoch. Preliminary photometry and observation data are the following:

Date           UT start  t-T0       Exp.    Filter Obj.    Err.   UL       Site/Telescope
                        (mid,days)  (n*s)                        (3sigma)
2026-02-04     12:10:33  4.26118    43*120  R      19.56   0.04   22.3     Mondy/AZT-33IK
2026-02-04     15:54:04  4.41278    30*150  R      19.87   0.07   22.2     Zeiss-2000/Terskol
2026-02-05     13:40:24  5.32702    49*120  R      19.83   0.04   22.5     Mondy/AZT-33IK

The photometry is based on several nearby stars from the USNO-B1 catalogue (R2 magnitudes) and is not corrected for the Galactic extinction.
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