GCN 43577: EP260131a: Las Cumbres detection of an optical counterpart

2026-01-31T05:12:32.866Z | rev 0 | event: EP260131a

Wenxiong Li, Runduo Liang (NAOC), Iair Arcavi (TAU), Ido Keinan (TAU), David Sand (U of Arizona)
We observed the position of EP260131a with a Las Cumbres 1m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile, ~1 hour after the Einstein Probe WXT trigger. We took 2x300s exposures in the broad optical w band.

We find a uncataloged source at RA=149.9025, Dec=-3.3073 within the EP-FXT error circle and measure the following preliminary photometry calibrated to the r band:
MJD 61071.183 Mag 20.9 

Additional followup is encouraged.