GCN Circular 44491
Subject
EP260507a: TRT optical counterpart detection
Event
Date
2026-05-07T18:11:13Z (a day ago)
From
sqjiang at NAOC <sqjiang@bao.ac.cn>
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S.Q. Jiang (NAOC), K. Noysena, K. Chanchaiworawit, S. Tinyanont (NARIT), S.Y. Fu (HUST), X. Liu, Z.P. Zhu, J. An, L.B. He, D. Xu (NAOC) report:
We observed the field of EP260507a detected by EP (Fu et. al, GCN 44488), using the 0.7-m telescope of the Thai Robotic Telescope network (TRT), located at New South Wales, Australia (SBO). Observation started at 2026-05-07T14:27:55.509 UT, i.e., 39.98 mins post-burst, and a series of R-band frames were obtained.
The optical afterglow (Corcoran et. al, GCN 44489; Sankar et. al, GCN 44490) is marginally detected in our stacked images with a brightness of R = 20.8 +/- 0.36 at a median time of 45.88 mins since trigger, calibrated with Pan-STARRS DR2 stars in the field and not corrected for Galactic extinction.