GCN Circular 43878
Subject
GRB 260226A: Asiago r-band upper limit
Event
Date
2026-02-28T12:43:06Z (5 days ago)
From
Daniele Bjørn Malesani at Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute <daniele.malesani@nbi.ku.dk>
Via
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A. Reguitti (INAF/OAPd), P. D'Avanzo (INAF/OAB), D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud), L. Tomasella (INAF/OAPd) report on behalf of the CIBO collaboration:
We observed the field of the bright GRB 260226A (Depalo et al., GCN 43850; Bissaldi et al., GCN 43851; Harsha et al., GCN 43846; Waratkar & Grefenstette, GCN 43854; Woolf et al.. GCN 43855; Kobayashi et al., GCN 43860; Svinkin et al., GCN 43864; Yu et al., GCN 43865) using the 67/92 Schmidt Telescope located at the Asiago observatory (Italy). Observations consisted of five r-band exposures of 240 s each, with a mid time Feb 26.766 UT (7.77 hr after the Fermi/GBM trigger).
Image subtraction was carried out using the DESI Legacy survey (Dey et al. 2019, doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ab089d) as template. No new source is detected within the revised Fermi/LAT error circle (Depalo et al., GCN 43850) down to a limiting magnitude r > 20.4 AB (calibrated against nearby objects from the Pan-STARRS catalog).
Our non detection is consistent with other reports from the literature (Konno et al., GCN 43852; Saikia et al., GCN 43853; Strausbaugh & Cucchiara, GCN 43858; Angulo et al., GCN 43859).