GCN Circular 45241
Subject
GRB 260726A: Liverpool Telescope optical observations
Event
Date
2026-07-28T11:04:58Z (a day ago)
From
A. Bochenek at Liverpool John Moores University <a.m.bochenek@2023.ljmu.ac.uk>
Via
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A. Bochenek, D. A. Perley (LJMU), report:
We observed the field of GRB 260726A (Fermi GBM team, GCN 45218; Liang et al., GCN 45219; Brunet et al., GCN 45229) using the IO:O optical camera on the 2m robotic Liverpool Telescope. We obtained 8x120s exposures in SDSS r and i filters, starting at 2026-07-28 01:48:36 UT, approximately 26.06 hours after Fermi trigger.
We detect a source in the i-band stacked image at the candidate counterpart position reported by Brunet et al. (GCN 45229) and Li et al. (GCN 45230), and a non-detection in the stacked r-band image, with photometry given below:
MJD (mid) T_mid-T_0 Filter Mag. (AB)
61249.08219 26.23 h r > 22.03
61249.09609 26.56 h i 22.58 ± 0.16
The photometry is in the AB magnitude system, was calibrated using nearby PanSTARRS secondary standards and was not corrected for extinction.