GCN Circular 44154
Subject
EP260329a: COLIBRÍ optical upper limit
Event
Date
2026-03-30T07:26:18Z (3 days ago)
From
Camila Angulo Valdez at UNAM <camiangulo@astro.unam.mx>
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Camila Angulo (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), Rosa L. Becerra (UNAM), William H. Lee (UNAM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Dalya Akl (NYUAD), Sarah Antier (IJCLAB), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Marion Guelfand (CPPM), Asuka Kuwata (UNAM), Massimiliano 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 the EP260329a (Yang et al., GCN Circ. 44141) using the DDRAGO two-channel wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2026-03-29 11:41:47 to 12:23:53 UTC (from 8.19 to 8.89 hours after the trigger, starting 1.3 hours after the notice) and obtained 29 minutes of simultaneous exposure in the r and z filters.
The data were reduced and coadded with the 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 any new source at the position of the two EP/FXT sources (assuming a 10″ error) reported by Yang et al. (GCN Circ. 44153), as well as at the position of the optical counterpart reported by NOT (He et al., GCN Circ. 44152), down to the following 3-sigma limit:
r > 22.45
z > 21.06
Our non-detection, together with the FXT observation, is consistent with the candidate reported by NOT (He et al., GCN Circ. 44152) being a plausible optical counterpart of EP260329A.
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.