GCN Circular 43659
Subject
GRB 260208B: SVOM/VT optical candidate
Event
Date
2026-02-09T09:10:45Z (8 hours ago)
Edited On
2026-02-09T14:27:54Z (3 hours ago)
From
Huali Li at at NAOC, SVOM <lhl@nao.cas.cn>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Huali Li at at NAOC, SVOM <lhl@nao.cas.cn>
Via
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H. L. Li (NAOC), C. W. Wang (IHEP), Y. L. Qiu (NAOC), Y. N. Ma (NAOC), Z. H. Yao (NAOC), C. Wu (NAOC), L.P. Xin (NAOC), X. H. Han (NAOC), J. Wang (NAOC), Y. Xu (NAOC), P. P. Zhang (NAOC), W. J. Xie (NAOC), Y. J. Xiao (NAOC), H. B. Cai (NAOC), L. Lan (NAOC), J. R. Xu (NAOC), J. S. Deng (NAOC), J. Y. Wei (NAOC), J. Palmerio (CEA/Irfu) report on behalf of the SVOM/VT team.
SVOM/VT performed ToO observation to GRB 260208B detected by Fermi-GBM (The Fermi GBM team, GCN 43638; Preis & Greiner, GCN 43639; Sonawane et al., GCN 43649), Fermi-LAT (Longo et al., GCN 43647) and SVOM/GRM (Luo et al., GCN 43650). The observation started at 2026-02-08T18:13:53 UTC, i.e., 8.359 hours post trigger in the VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm) channels simultaneously.
An uncatalogued source was detected within the error box of source 1 detected by Swift-XRT (Evans et al., GCN 43651). The position is at R.A., Dec. = 99.619042, -13.774177 degrees, equivalent to:
R.A. (J2000) = +06:38:28.57
Dec. (J2000) = -13:46:27.04
with an uncertainty of 0.5 arcsec.
The measurements in AB magnitudes are given below:
Mid_time Band Exposure Time Magnitude (AB)
10.341 hour VT_R 53*50 sec 22.3+/-0.2 mag
10.341 hour VT_B 57*50 sec > 23.5 mag
Our photometry was not corrected for Galactic extinction.
Further SVOM/VT ToO observations are scheduled.
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA, China), National Center for Space Studies (CNES, France) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, China), which is dedicated to observing gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena in the energetic universe. VT was jointly developed by Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), CAS and National astronomical observatories (NAOC), CAS.