GCN Circular 45012
Subject
EP260618a: JinShan optical observations
Event
Date
2026-06-20T06:12:59Z (24 days ago)
Edited On
2026-06-20T14:24:25Z (23 days ago)
From
L. B. He at NAOC <helb@bao.ac.cn>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of L. B. He at NAOC <helb@bao.ac.cn>
Via
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L.B. He, S.Q. Jiang, J. An, X. Liu, Z.P. Zhu, D. Xu (NAOC), S.Y. Fu, A.D. Zhu, L. Lei (HUST), J.Z. Liu (XAO) report:
We observed the field of EP260618a detected by EP/WXT (Yang et al., GCN 44978; Jiang et al., GCN 44991), possibly associated with GRB 260618A (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 44973) using the JinShan 100C telescope located at Altay, Xinjiang, China.
The previously reported optical counterpart (Becerra et al., GCN 44988; Malesani et al., GCN 44990; Amram et al., GCN 44994) is detected in our stacked images with a brightness of r ~ 22.4 mag at a median time of 1.429 days since the EP trigger, i.e. 1.504 days since the Fermi GBM trigger, calibrated with Pan-STARRS DR2 stars in the field and not corrected for Galactic extinction.