GCN Circular 43793
Subject
EP260221a: COLIBRÍ optical upper limit
Event
Date
2026-02-21T14:25:23Z (2 days ago)
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EP260221a: COLIBRÍ optical upper limit
Nikos Mandarakas (LAM), Asuka Kuwata (UNAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Dalya Akl (NYUAD), Sarah Antier (IJCLAB), Rosa L. Becerra (UNAM), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Fredd Sánchez Álvarez (UNAM) and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM) report:
We imaged the field of the EP260221a (Zhang et al., GCN Circ. 43791) using the DDRAGO two-channel wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2026-02-21T12:22:07 to 2026-02-21T13:05:02 UTC (from 38.87 to 81.80 minutes after the trigger, 30 seconds after the GCN notice) and obtained 32 minutes of simultaneous exposure in the r and z filters.
The data were reduced and coadded with the COLIBRÍ pipeline and analysed with STDWeb/STDPipe (Karpov 2025). The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the Pan-STARRS-DR2 catalog, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
In the stacked image, we do not detect any new source at the FXT source position (Zhang et al., GCN Circ. 43791) down to the following 5-sigma limit:
r > 23.1
z > 21.8
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir and the COLIBRÍ and DDRAGO engineering teams.
COLIBRÍ is an astronomical observatory developed and operated jointly by France (AMU, CNES and CNRS) and Mexico (UNAM and SECIHTI). It is located at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico.