TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 43862 SUBJECT: EP260214a: VLT/FORS2 optical observations DATE: 26/02/27 09:53:25 GMT FROM: N. Passaleva at Sapienza University of Rome <niccolo.passaleva@uniroma1.it> N. Passaleva, H. Waseem, Yu-Han Yang, and Eleonora Troja (U Rome) report on behalf of the ERC BHianca team: We observed the field of EP260214a (Li et al., GCN 43742) with the FORS2 imager on the ESO VLT UT1 (Antu). Observations began 11.3 days after the EP/WXT trigger and were carried out at an average airmass ~1.3 and with an average seeing ~0.45 arcsec in the R filter. At the position of the candidate radio counterpart reported by Ricci et al. (GCN 43845) we detect a faint source (r~26 AB mag). Assuming our observations are dominated by the host galaxy light, we compute a chance alignment of Pcc~1%. We thank the staff at the VLT for the rapid execution of these observations. View this GCN Circular online at https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/43862. --- To unsubscribe, open this link in a web browser: https://gcn.nasa.gov/unsubscribe/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJlbWFpbCI6InZzbmV0LW...