GCN Circular 45718
GRB 260924A: NOT optical counterpart confirmation
From: Daniele Bjørn Malesani at Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute
Issued: 2026-09-24 07:35 UTC
Type: GRB, Optical Transient

L. Izzo (INAF/OACN and DARK/NBI), J. An (NAOC), A. Saccardi (CEA/Irfu), G. Corcoran (UCD), S.Y. Fu (HUST), D. Xu (NAOC), D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI), A. S. Mårtensson (NOT), report on behalf of a larger collaboration:

We observed the field of the Swift/BAT GRB 260924A (D'Elia et al., GCN 45713) using the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) equipped with the ALFOSC instrument. The target had only a short visibility window from La Palma. Observations started at 05:38:57 UT on September 24 2026 (about 4.43 hr after the Swift trigger), and consisted of 3x300 s in the SDSS-r and 5x200 s in the SDSS-z band.

Within the enhanced Swift/XRT localisation region reported by Evans et al. (GCN 45715), we detect the source first noted by Hu et al. (GCN 45717), for which we report the following coordinates:

RA (J2000) = 08:55:03.10
Dec (J2000) = +12:02:35.42

with an estimated error of ~0.5".

In our stacked images we measure the following AB magnitudes:

r = 16.28 +/- 0.02
z = 16.00 +/- 0.02

These magnitudes are calibrated using nearby objects from the Pan-STARRS catalog and are not corrected for Galactic extinction.

Filter: gamma-ray bursts are posted only if in the top 10% of the past year's — by fluence (total energy received per cm², from Fermi GBM, Konus-Wind, GECAM and similar circulars; now ≥ 3.9×10^-5 erg/cm²) or by the number of GCN Circulars about the burst (now ≥ 14). Thresholds are recalculated monthly.
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