GCN Circular 44720
Subject
EP260527a: SVOM/VT optical observation
Event
Date
2026-05-28T07:13:15Z (2 days ago)
From
Huali Li at at NAOC, SVOM <lhl@nao.cas.cn>
Via
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H. L. Li, C. Wu, Y. L. Qiu, L. P. Xin, Y. N. Ma, Z. H. Yao, J. R. Xu, X. H. Han, J. Wang, Y. Xu, P. P. Zhang, W. J. Xie, Y. J. Xiao, H. B. Cai, L. Lan, J. S. Deng, J. Y. Wei (NAOC) and J. Palmerio (CEA/Irfu) report on behalf of the SVOM/VT team.
SVOM/VT performed ToO observations to the field of EP260527a triggered by Einstein Probe (Yang et al., GCN 44718). The observation started at 2026-05-28T02:57:38 UTC, 20.63 hours post trigger in the VT_B (400-650 nm) and VT_R (650-1000 nm) channels simultaneously.
The optical counterpart (Aguilar-Ruiz et al., GCN 44719) was detected by VT in both channels.
The following measurements are in the AB magnitude without correction for Galactic extinction:
Mid time | Band | Exposure Time | Brightness
21.76 h VT_B 29*50 s 22.32 +/- 0.22 mag
21.81 h VT_R 23*50 s 21.77 +/- 0.19 mag
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA, China), National Center for Space Studies (CNES, France) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, China), which is dedicated to observing gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena in the energetic universe. VT was jointly developed by Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), CAS and National astronomical observatories (NAOC), CAS.