GCN Circular 45084
Subject
GRB 260705A: LCO optical upper limits
Event
Date
2026-07-06T08:47:12Z (3 days ago)
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Y.Y. Shi (GXU), A. Saccardi (CEA/Irfu), C. Wu (NAOC), L.P. Xin (NAOC), D. Turpin (CEA/Irfu), X. Tian (GXU), Z. Liu (GZNU) report on behalf of the SVOM mission team:
We observed the field of GRB 260705A (SVOM burst-id sb26070502) detected by SVOM (Saccardi et al., GCN 45079) with the LCO 1m telescope at South African Astronomical Observatory equipped with the Sinistro instrument.
Our observation started on 2026-07-06 at 03:52:16 UT (about 14.76 hr after the trigger) and we obtained 3x200 s exposures in the SDSS r and 3x200 s exposures in the Pan-STARRS z filters.
In the stacked image, we do not detect any new source within the SVOM/ECLAIRs error box. We measure the following upper limits calibrated against the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR10 catalog, and not corrected for Galactic extinction:
r > 20.9 AB (5-sigma, mid-time 14.85 h after the trigger);
z > 19.9 AB (5-sigma, mid-time 15.06 h after the trigger).
This project is funded by the SVOM collaboration.