GCN 43491: EP260116a: COLIBRÍ further observations

2026-01-21T19:38:30.440Z | rev 2 | event: EP260116a
Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Dalya Akl (NYUAD), Sarah Antier (IJCLAB), Rosa L. Becerra (UNAM), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Asuka Kuwata (UNAM), Nikos Mandarakas (LAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Fredd Sánchez Álvarez (UNAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM) and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM) report:

We observed the field of EP260116a (Wang et al., GCN Circ. 43424) with the DDRAGO two-channel wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope from 2026-01-21 03:47 to 07:39 UTC (from 123.6 to 127.5 hours after the trigger) and obtained 99 and 171 minutes of exposure in the r and z filters, respectively. The observing conditions were good.

The data were reduced, coadded, calibrated, and analyzed with the COLIBRÍ ASU pipeline. The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.

The source we have previously reported (Butler et al., GCN Circ 43459; Watson et al., GCN Circ 43480) is clearly detected with preliminary magnitudes of

r = 23.09 +/- 0.06,
z = 23.10 +/- 0.13.

Considering all of our data, the rebrightening we tentatively reported (Watson et al., GCN Circ 43480) is not confirmed and the data seem to be best explained by a simple flattening.

We also note that while this source is within the WXT error regions, it is not within the FXT error region (Wang et al., GCN Circ. 43424). We do not consider it to be associated with EP 260116a.

We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir and the COLIBRÍ and DDRAGO engineering teams.

COLIBRÍ is an astronomical observatory developed and operated jointly by France (AMU, CNES and CNRS) and Mexico (UNAM and SECIHTI). It is located at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico.