GCN Circular 43718
Subject
GRB 260211A: GOTO optical upper limit
Event
Date
2026-02-12T19:44:39Z (18 hours ago)
From
I. Worssam at University of Birmingham <ixw352@student.bham.ac.uk>
Via
Web form
S. Belkin, I. Worssam, A. Kumar, D. O’Neill, G. Ramsay, B. P. Gompertz, R. Starling, M. Wortley, M. Kennedy, K. Ackley, M. Dyer, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, D. Steeghs, D. Galloway, V. Dhillon, P. O'Brien, K. Noysena, R. Kotak, R. Breton, J. Casares, L. Nuttall, B. Godson, T. Killestein, M. Pursiainen, on behalf of GOTO collaboration:
We report on optical observations with the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO; Steeghs et al. 2022, Dyer et al. 2024) in response to the SVOM detected GRB 260211A (Gotz et al., GCN 43705). Two epochs of observations covering the localisation area were taken at 2026-02-11 20:08:30 UT (+44min post trigger) and 2026-02-11 21:16:33 UT (+1.87h post trigger) utilising GOTO-North. Each observation consisted of 4x90 s exposures in the GOTO L-band (400-700 nm).
Images were processed immediately after acquisition using the GOTO pipeline. Difference imaging was performed using deeper template observations.
No new transients that could be credibly associated with GRB 260211A were detected down to an average 5-sigma depth of 20.6 mag (AB), see also Globus et al., GCN 43707; Wu et al., GCN 43709; Konno et al., GCN 43715.
GOTO (https://goto-observatory.org) is a network of telescopes that is principally funded by the STFC and operated at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, Spain, and Siding Spring Observatory in NSW, Australia, on behalf of a consortium including the University of Warwick, Monash University, Armagh Observatory & Planetarium, the University of Leicester, the University of Sheffield, the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT), the University of Turku, the University of Portsmouth, the University of Manchester, the University of Birmingham and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC).