First event of the new year: AC 2026a

Happy New Year and all the best for 2026! :sparkles:

The first event recorded within Astro-COLIBRI and given the name “AC 2026a” by the Astro-COLIBRI nameserver is a gamma-ray burst detected by Swift: GRB 260101A. Its redshift of z = 2.623 has already been measured using the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) equipped with the OSIRIS+ instrument. A good start into the new year…

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