GCN Circular 44412
Subject
EP260321a/SN 2026gzf: spectroscopy at Mondy observatory
Event
Date
2026-04-27T15:01:46Z (12 days ago)
From
Alexander Moskvitin at SAO RAS <mosk@sao.ru>
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A. Moskvitin (SAO RAS), I. Zaznobin (IKI), M. Eselevich (ISTP),
A. Volnova (IKI), N. Pankov (IKI), A. Pozanenko (IKI),
report on behalf of IKI-GRB-FuN:
We observed the optical counterpart of the fast X-ray transient
EP260321a (Huang et al., GCN 44068; GCN 44075) identified early
as SN 2026gzf (Lee et al., GCN 44070; Ma et al., GCN 44074;
Aguilar-Ruiz et al., GCN 44076; Aryan et al., GCN 44081;
Tanvir et al., GCN 44082; Moran et al., GCN 44083; Ahumada et al.,
GCN 44084; Liu et al., GCN 44087; Sankar et al., GCN 44089;
de Ugarte Postigo et al., GCN 44091; Xu et al., GCN 44092;
Pankov et al., GCN 44103; Corcoran et al., GCN 44105;
Rastinejad et al., GCN 44107; Gao et al., GCN 44110; Zhang et al.,
GCN 44171; Li et al., GCN 44284; Gupta et al., GCN 44348;
also detected as NIR source: He et al., GCN 44117; Volnova et al.,
GCN 44295) with AZT-33IK telescope (Mondy) equipped with the ADAM
spectrograph (Afanasiev et al., Astrophysical Bulletin, 2015,
Vol. 71, Issue 4, p. 479; Burenin et al., Astronomy Letters, 2016,
Vol. 42, Issue 5, p. 295).
We obtained 4 x 900 sec spectra with VPHG600G grism
(range 3600--7250AA, dispersion 3.6 A/pix) on 2026-04-13,
15:02:08--16:02:47 UT(t_mid - T0 = 23.1265 days).
In the spectra we clearly detected host galaxy emission lines
of Balmer series, [O III] 4959A, 5007A, 4363A, [O II] 3727A,
[S II] 6717A and 6731A, He I 5876A at the redshift of z = 0.0343
which is consistent with other reported measurements (Tanvir et al.,
GCN 44082; Xu et al., GCN 44092; Corcoran et al., GCN 44105;
Rastinejad et al., GCN 44107).
We also detected broad lines of supernova SN 2026gzf which we
interpreted as Fe II and Si II with the velocity of about 10000 km/s.
Comparison with the SNID (Blondin & Tonry, 2007, ApJ, 666, 1024)
showed best fit with SN 1997ef, SN 2006aj, SN 2002ap and SN 1998bw
supernovae.