GCN Circular 44457
Subject
GRB 260504B: AST3-2 i-band upper limit
Event
Date
2026-05-04T15:02:23Z (5 days ago)
From
Tianrui Sun at Purple Mountain Obs,CAS <trsun@pmo.ac.cn>
Via
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Tian-Rui Sun, Yan-Long Hua (Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS), Kun Ma, Jiali Chen, Kai-wen Zheng, Hongjian Guo, Ben Liu, Shuping Wang, Huiping Jin, Jiaheng Liu, Haoyu Yan, Jiajie Yang, Xiao-Yan Li (Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology, CAS), Jin-Jun Geng, Wenlong Zhang, Xue-Feng Wu (Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS), report on behalf of the AST3 Team:
Following the detection of GRB 260504B by ECLAIRs aboard SVOM (A. Saccardi et al., GCN 44454),
we carried out follow-up observations using the Antarctic Survey Telescope AST3-2 located at Dome A, Antarctica (Lat. −80.4173 deg, Long. 77.0950 deg).
Observations began at 2026-05-04 09:48:50 UT.
No significant optical counterpart was detected within the ECLAIRs error circle (~4.91 arcmin radius) and the MXT error circle (~167 arcsec), based on comparisons with Gaia DR3 and archival SkyMapper cutout images. The stacked image with a total exposure time of 7170 s in the i-band reached a 5σ limiting magnitude of ~19.7.This result is consistent with the non-detections reported by MASTA-OAFA (F. Podesta et al., GCN 44455) and by LCO (D. Turpin et al., GCN 44456).
Photometric calibration was performed using the ATLAS Reference Catalog (Tonry et al. 2018).
We thank Prof. Michael Ashley (UNSW) for his continuous support in the operation of AST3-2.