GCN Circular 43715
Subject
GRB 260211A: LAST optical upper limit
Event
Date
2026-02-12T17:46:24Z (3 days ago)
From
Ruslan Konno at Weizmann Institute of Science <ruslankonno@gmail.com>
Via
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R. Konno (WIS), S. Garrappa (WIS), E. A. Zimmerman (WIS), A. Horowicz (WIS), E. O. Ofek (WIS), S. Ben-Ami (WIS), D. Polishook (WIS), O. Yaron (WIS), S. Fainer (WIS), A. Krassilchtchikov (WIS), Y. M. Shani (WIS), E. Segre (WIS), A. Gal-Yam (WIS), and S. Spitzer (WIS) report on behalf of the LAST Collaboration.
We report observations of GRB 260211A, detected by SVOM (Gotz et al., GCN 43705). Observations were conducted with the Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST; Ofek et al. 2023, PASP 135, 5001; Ben-Ami et al. 2023, PASP 135, 5002).
We observed the field of GRB 260211A using 4 divergent telescopes (each with a 7.4 deg^2 FoV) in clear band (similar to the Gaia Bp band) over 18 sequential epochs. Each epoch consists of 20x20s exposures.
We began observations at 2026-02-11 19:27:31 UTC (T-T0 = 178 s). We coadd a total of 220x20s exposure images and perform image subtraction using a reference image of the field. We do not detect any new optical source up to a limiting magnitude of 20.12 (AB) within the error region reported in Gotz et al., GCN 43705.
LAST is a survey telescope array of the Weizmann Astrophysical Observatory (https://www.weizmann.ac.il/wao/).