GCN Circular 46162
Subject
EP261105a: LCO optical upper limits
Event
Date
2026-11-05T17:07:33Z (a day ago)
From
J. Sánchez-Sierras at Radboud University <javisansie@gmail.com>
Via
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A. P. C. van Hoof (Radboud), G. Corcoran (UCD), J. Sanchez-Sierras (Radboud), A. Martin-Carrillo (UCD), P. G. Jonker (Radboud) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
We observed the field of the fast X-ray transient EP261105a detected by Einstein Probe (Guo et al., GCN 46155) with the LCO 1-m telescope located at Siding Spring (Australia) and equipped with the SINISTRO instrument. Observations consisted of a sequence of 9 x 300 s exposures in SDSS r-band and started at 2026-11-05 at 12:41:00 UT (~2.55 h after the trigger).
We performed image subtraction against archival Legacy Survey and Skymapper images. We do not detect any new source inside the Einstein Probe Follow-up X-ray Telescope uncertainty region, including the counterpart candidate detected by Ma et al. (GCN 46160), down to a 3-sigma upper limiting magnitude of:
r > 23.0
This upper limit is in AB magnitude, calibrated using nearby stars from the Legacy Survey catalogue, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.