GCN Circular 44820
Subject
GRB 260603A: NOT optical observations
Event
Date
2026-06-04T12:05:46Z (2 days ago)
From
Daniele Bjørn Malesani at Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute <daniele.malesani@nbi.ku.dk>
Via
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D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud), L. Izzo (INAF/OACN and DARK/NBI), G. Corcoran (UCD), A. Martin-Carrillo (UCD), N. Pyykkinen (NOT), A. S. Mårtensson (NOT) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
We observed the optical afterglow (Guelfand et al., GCNs 44791, 44797; Li et al., GCN 44799) of the SVOM GRB 260603A (Zhao et al., GCN 44787) using the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) equipped with the ALFOSC camera. Observations were carried out in the SDSS r band.
The optical afterglow is detected with an AB magnitude r = 23.27 +- 0.21, at a mean epoch of Jun 4.02 UT (0.786 days after trigger). This magnitude is calibrated against nearby stars from the Pan-STARRS catalog, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.