GCN Circular 43872
Subject
GRB 260225A: SVOM/VT optical continued observations and upper limit
Event
Date
2026-02-28T05:02:37Z (5 days ago)
From
Yinuo Ma <mayn@bao.ac.cn>
Via
Web form
Y. N. Ma, Z. H. Yao, H. L. Li, Y. L. Qiu, C. Wu, L. P. Xin, X. H. Han, Y. Xu, J. Wang, P. P. Zhang, W. J. Xie, Y. J. Xiao, H. B. Cai, L. Lan, J. R. Xu, J. S. Deng, J. Y. Wei (NAOC), J. Palmerio (CEA), L. Zhang (IHEP) report on behalf of the SVOM/VT team.
SVOM/VT continued observations of GRB 260225A (sb26022501) triggered by SVOM/ECLAIRs (Ma et al., GCN 43829). With X-band data available, the optical counterpart (Ducoin et al., GCN 43837; Li et al., GCN 43838; Schneider et al., GCN 43861) within EP/FXT error box (Yang et al., GCN 43839) was detected in VT_B band. The magnitudes are:
mid time (h) | exposure time (s) | band | mag (AB)
-------------|-------------------|------|------------
35.08 | 37*70 | VT_B | 23.6+/-0.3
35.04 | 27*70 | VT_R | >23.3
Our photometry was not corrected for Galactic extinction.
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA, China), National Center for Space Studies (CNES, France) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, China), which is dedicated to observing gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena in the energetic universe. VT was jointly developed by Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), CAS and National astronomical observatories (NAOC), CAS.