GCN Circular 44019
Subject
EP260314a: COLIBRÍ optical upper limit
Event
Date
2026-03-15T12:33:39Z (2 days ago)
From
F. Fortin at IRAP <ffortin.sci.edu@gmail.com>
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Francis Fortin (IRAP), Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Dalya Akl (NYUAD), Sarah Antier (IJCLAB), Rosa L. Becerra (UNAM), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Marion Guelfand (CPPM), Asuka Kuwata (UNAM), Missimiliano Lincetto (CPPM), Nikos Mandarakas (LAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Fredd Sánchez Álvarez (UNAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM) and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM) report:
We imaged the field of EP260314a (Zhao et al., GCN Circ. 44010, Wu et al., GCN Circ. 44016) using the DDRAGO two-channel wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2026-03-15 04:49:56 to 11:14:09 UTC (from 9.1 to 12.4 hours after the trigger) and obtained 144 minutes of simultaneous exposure in the i and z filters.
The data were reduced and coadded with the COLIBRÍ ASU pipeline. The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
In the stacked image, we do not detect the SVOM/VT optical counterpart candidate reported by Li et al., GCN Circ. 44013 down to the following 3-sigma limit:
i > 24.08
z > 23.17
While a direct comparison of magnitudes between the i, z filters and the VT filters is not possible, we suggest that our limits may be consistent with a fading of the VT optical candidate, which would strengthen the hypothesis that it is the true counterpart of EP260314A.
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional at Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, as well as the technical and engineering teams at CEA, CPPM, IRAP, LAM, OHP, OSU Pytheas, and UNAM.
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.