TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 43814 SUBJECT: GRB 260223A: COLIBRÍ further optical observations and a brightening DATE: 26/02/23 14:15:07 GMT FROM: Alan Watson at UNAM <alan@astro.unam.mx> Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Rosa L. Becerra (UNAM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz (UNAM), Dalya Akl (NYUAD), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Sarah Antier (IJCLAB), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Asuka Kuwata (UNAM), 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), and Benjamin Schneider (LAM) report: We continued to observe the field of the Fermi GRB 260223A (Fermi GBM team et al., GCN Circ. 43808) using the DDRAGO two-channel wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2026-02-23 06:16 to 07:48 UTC (from 2.08 to 3.67 hours after the trigger) and obtained near-continuous, alternating 60-second exposures in the grizy filters. The data were reduced, coadded, calibrated, and analysed with the COLIBRÍ ASU pipeline. The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the PanSTARRS DR2, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction (A_V = 0.68, Schlafly et al. 2011). The optical counterpart reported by Becerra et al. (GCN Circ. 43811) and confirmed by our earlier observations (de Ugarte Postiga et al. GCN Circ 43812) is observed to brighten continuously during our extended observations, rising from i = 18.55 at the start of our observations to i = 18.15 at the end. Similar behaviour is seen in the other bands. We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir and the COLIBRÍ and DDRAGO engineering teams. 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. View this GCN Circular online at https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/43814. --- To unsubscribe, open this link in a web browser: https://gcn.nasa.gov/unsubscribe/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJlbWFpbCI6InZzbmV0LW...