GCN 44776: EP260530a/AT 2026nwl: COLIBRÍ optical follow up

2026-06-02T20:15:16.815Z | rev 0 | event: EP260530a
Marion Guelfand (CPPM), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Dalya Akl (NYUAD), Sarah Antier (IJCLAB), Rosa L. Becerra (UNAM), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM),  Francis Fortin (IRAP), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Asuka Kuwata (UNAM), Massimiliano Lincetto (CPPM), 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 the optical source AT 2026nwl, discovered by GOTO (Godson et al., TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 306622), associated with EP260530a (Wu et al., ATel #17824), further observed by COLIBRÍ (Globus et al., GCN Circ. 44759) and KAIT (Zheng et al., GCN Circ. 44775), and classified as a CV (Pursiainen et al., TNS Classification Report No. 23885), with the DDRAGO two-channel wide-field imager mounted on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2026-06-02 04:19 to 07:11 UTC (from 79.21 to 82.15 hours after the GOTO discovery) and obtained 24 minutes of exposure in each of the g, r, and i filters, and 72 minutes of exposure in the z filter.

The data were reduced and coadded 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.

We continue to detect the source at the following preliminary magnitudes:

g = 15.77 +/- 0.01,
r = 15.87 +/- 0.01,
i = 15.98 +/- 0.01,
z = 16.07 +/- 0.01.


We observe a quasi-periodic modulation of the light curve in the different photometric bands with a characteristic timescale of approximately 1 hour, typical of certain classes of accreting binary stars, and a peak-to-valley amplitude of about 0.1 mag Further observations and analysis are ongoing.

We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional at Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, as well as the technical and engineering teams at CEA, CPPM, IRAP, LAM, OHP, OSU Pytheas, and UNAM.

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.