GCN Circular 43933
Subject
EP260306a: SVOM/VT optical observation
Event
Date
2026-03-06T10:21:37Z (6 days ago)
From
Yinuo Ma <mayn@bao.ac.cn>
Via
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Y. N. Ma, H. L. Li, Z. H. Yao, 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) report on behalf of the SVOM/VT team.
SVOM/VT performed a Target of Opportunity observation of EP260306a detected by EP/WXT (Huang et al., GCN 43930). SVOM/VT began observing the field at 2026-03-06T03:45:23 UTC, 2.268 hours after the trigger, in the VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm) channels simultaneously.
With X-band data available, the optical counterpart (Li et al., GCN 43929; Globus et al., GCN 43931) was detected in both VT_B and VT_R bands. The AB magnitudes are:
mid time (h) | exposure time (s) | band | mag (AB)
-------------|-------------------|------|--------------
2.608 | 48*50 | VT_B | 23.1+-0.2
2.642 | 53*50 | VT_R | 21.7+-0.1
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.