GCN Circular 44965
Subject
EP260616a/GRB260616B: COLIBRÍ optical upper limit
Event
Date
2026-06-17T14:44:26Z (3 days ago)
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Nikos Mandarakas (LAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Dalya Akl (NYUAD), Sarah Antier (IJCLAB), Rosa L. Becerra (UNAM), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Marion Guelfand (CPPM), Asuka Kuwata (UNAM), Massimiliano Lincetto (CPPM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Fredd Sánchez Álvarez (UNAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM), and Alan M. Watson (UNAM) report:
We imaged the field of the EP 260616a (Li et al., GCN Circ. 44956), which is consistent in time and location with GRB 260616B (Malacaria et al., GCN Circ. 44953), using the DDRAGO two-channel wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2026-06-17 05:56:39 to 07:16:28 UTC (from 22.86 to 24.20 hours after the trigger) and obtained 48 minutes of simultaneous exposure in the r and z filters.
The data were reduced, coadded and analysed with the ASU COLIBRÍ pipeline. The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
In the stacked image, we do not detect any new source at the WXT source position (Li et al., GCN Circ. 44956) down to the following 5-sigma limit:
r > 22.76 mag
z > 22.20 mag
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional at Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, as well as the technical and engineering teams at CEA, CPPM, IRAP, LAM, OHP, OSU Pytheas, and UNAM.
COLIBRÍ is an astronomical observatory developed and operated jointly by France (AMU, CNES and CNRS) and Mexico (UNAM and SECIHTI). It is located at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico.