{
  "submittedHow": "web",
  "createdOn": 1772186005389,
  "submitter": "N. Passaleva at Sapienza University of Rome <niccolo.passaleva@uniroma1.it>",
  "bibcode": "2026GCN.43862....1P",
  "body": "N. Passaleva, H. Waseem, Yu-Han Yang, and Eleonora Troja (U Rome) report on behalf of the ERC BHianca team:\n\nWe observed the field of EP260214a (Li et al., GCN 43742) with the FORS2 imager on the ESO VLT UT1 (Antu). Observations began 11.3 days after the EP/WXT trigger and were carried out at an average airmass ~1.3 and with an average seeing ~0.45 arcsec in the R filter.\n\nAt the position of the candidate radio counterpart reported by Ricci et al. (GCN 43845) we detect a faint source (r~26 AB mag). Assuming our observations are dominated by the host galaxy light, we compute a chance alignment of Pcc~1%. \n\nWe thank the staff at the VLT for the rapid execution of these observations.\n",
  "eventId": "EP260214a",
  "format": "text/plain",
  "subject": "EP260214a: VLT/FORS2 optical observations",
  "circularId": 43862
}