GCN 44494: EP260507a: Liverpool Telescope optical upper limits

A. Bochenek, D. A. Perley (LJMU), report:

We observed the field of EP260507a (Fu et al., GCN 44488) using the IO:O optical camera on the 2m robotic Liverpool Telescope. We obtained 5x100s exposures in SDSS g, r, and i filters, starting at 2026-05-07 22:20:09 UT, approximately 8.54 hours after trigger.
 
We do not detect any sources at the position of the optical counterpart (Corcoran et al., GCN 44489; Sankar et al., GCN 44490; Jiang et al., GCN 44491, Kumar et al., GCN 44492) down to the 3-sigma limiting magnitude of g > 22.05, r > 21.92 and i > 22.07. 

Further observations are planned. The photometry is in the AB magnitude system, was calibrated using nearby PanSTARRS secondary standards and was not corrected for extinction.