GCN Circular 43837

Subject

GRB 260225A: SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) Detection of an Optical Counterpart Candidate

Event

GRB 260225A

Date

2026-02-26T00:08:25Z (9 days ago)

From

Stephane Basa at UAR Pytheas/OHP, LAM <stephane.basa@lam.fr>

Via

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Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Damien Dornic (CPPM), William H. Lee (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), Francis Fortin (IRAP),  Leonardo García-García (UNAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Asuka Kuwata (UNAM), Nikos Mandarakas (LAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), N. A. Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Fredd Sánchez Álvarez (UNAM), Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), and L. Zhang (IHEP) report:

The data reported in the GCN by Basa et al. (GCN Circ. 43830Loading...
 
 ) have been reanalyzed following an improved localization provided by ECLAIRs (private communication).

The images have been acquired by the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) telescope. We observed from 2026-02-25 09:02 UTC to 10:24 UTC (from 0.18 to 1.57 hours after the trigger) and obtained 64 minutes of exposure. 

The data were reduced and analyzed with the COLIBRÍ pipeline, and also analyzed with STDWeb/STDPipe (Karpov 2025). The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the Pan-STARRS DR1 catalog, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.

We detect an uncatalogued source revealed by image subtraction using Legacy Survey as template and consistent with the new ECLAIRs localization at: 
  RA(J2000) = 13:39:24.56 = 204.852333 degrees
  Dec(J2000) = 44:34:51.0 = 44.580833 degrees
with an uncertainty of 0.5 arcsec.

The preliminary magnitude derived for that source is:
  r = 21.55

Further observations and analysis are ongoing. 

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.