GCN Circular 46034
Subject
GRB 261026A: KAIT optical observations
Event
Date
2026-10-26T08:03:03Z (3 days ago)
From
Weikang Zheng at UC Berkeley <weikang@berkeley.edu>
Via
email
WeiKang Zheng (UCB), Yun Wang (UCB), Xuhui Han (NAOC),
Pinpin Zhang (NAOC), Yun Wang (UCB) and Alexei V. Filippenko (UCB)
report on behalf of the KAIT GRB team:
The 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), located at
Lick Observatory, observed the field of SVOM GRB 261026A (Goto
et al., GCN 46030) starting at 06:11:44 UT, 127 seconds after SVOM
trigger. Observations were performed in 3 x 3 tiling mode, and a
set of clear (roughly R) filter images were obtained. In one of
the fields, we detected the uncatalogued source reported by Dornic
et al. (GCN 46033) with a mag of 18.1 +/- 0.1 mag at 290 seconds
after the burst. The object continued fading in our follow up
observations, we therefore confirm it to be the optical counterpart
of GRB 261026A. Observations are on going.