GCN Circular 43752
Subject
EP260214b: OHP/T120 optical observations
Event
Date
2026-02-15T14:06:52Z (a day ago)
From
Christophe Adami at LAM <christophe.adami@lam.fr>
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D. Russeil (LAM/AMU), C. Adami (LAM/Pytheas/AMU), N.A. Rakotondrainibe (LAM), B. Schneider (LAM), J. Balcaen (Pytheas/OHP), Y. Degot-Longhi (Pytheas/OHP), S. Basa (LAM/OHP/Pytheas/AMU), E. Le Floc'h (CEA/Irfu), P. Araigi-hayek (AMU), J. Bourges (AMU), N. Hatchodourian (AMU), E. Lefevre-forjan (AMU), O. Maegey (AMU), P. Montaigne (AMU), C. Rey (AMU), M. Rousse (AMU), B. Sevilla (AMU), H. Subra (AMU), L. Valliccioni (AMU), H. LeCoroller (LAM), M. Ould-elhkim (LAM) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
We observed the field of the EP260214b (Yang et al., GCN 43744) using the T120cm telescope at Observatoire de Haute-Provence (France). We obtained 40 minutes of exposure in the r-band starting at 01:37:37.6 UT on 2026-02-15 (~3.6 hr after the trigger).
In the stacked image, the optical counterpart detected by He et al.(GCN 43745), Watson et al. (GCN 43747), and Perez-Fournon et al. (GCN 43750), and measured at a redshift of 1.208 (LeFloch et al., GCN 43749) is visible with a preliminar magnitude of:
r = 21.22 +/- 0.13 mag (AB)
The photometric calibration was performed using nearby stars from the PanSTARRS catalog and the STDWeb/STDPipe tools (Karpov 2025), is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
We acknowledge the excellent support from Observatoire de Haute-Provence.