GCN Circular 46000
Subject
EP261015a: Wendelstein 43 cm optical observations
Event
Date
2026-10-20T18:26:49Z (17 hours ago)
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Surya Shivaprasad (LMU), Malte Busmann (LMU), Brendan O'Connor (CMU), Daniel Gruen (LMU), Julius Gassert (LMU), Xander J. Hall (CMU), and Antonella Palmese (CMU) report:
We observed the counterpart of EP261015a (Corcoran et al., GCNs 45955 and 45972; Li et al., GCNs 45956 and 45969; Moreno Méndez et al., GCN 45960; Ma et al., GCN 45963; Mohan et al., GCN 45967; Fortin et al., GCN 45991; Volnova et al., GCN 45997; Pawar et al., GCN 45998) with the 43 cm telescope at Wendelstein Observatory. Observations were taken in the r band, with 47 × 300 s exposures starting at 2026-10-19T22:15:03 UT (4.37 days after the trigger). Using a template from the DESI Legacy Surveys for difference imaging, we measure an r-band magnitude of
r = 22.52 ± 0.28 AB mag.
This measurement is consistent with the updated report by Fortin et al. (GCN 45991), which reports r = 22.58 ± 0.09 AB mag at ~3.7 d post-trigger, indicating that the source is evolving slowly at this phase.
Magnitudes are calibrated against the PS1 catalog and are not corrected for Galactic extinction.