TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38519
SUBJECT: GRB 241128A: CrAO ZTSh and Mondy AZT-33IK optical observations
DATE: 24/12/10 09:57:54 GMT
FROM: Nicolai Pankov at HSE, IKI RAS <colinsergesen(a)gmail.com>
A. Volnova (IKI), N. Pankov (HSE, IKI), A. Pozanenko (IKI), V. Rumyantsev (CrAO), E. Klunko (ISTP) report on behalf of IKI-GRB-FuN:
We continued observations of the GRB 241128A (Brivio et al., GCN 38367; Page, GCN 38368) with 2.6-meter ZTSh telescope of CrAO observatory and 1.5-…
[View More]meter AZT-33IK telescope of Sayan observatory (Mondy). The optical afterglow (Hu et al., GCN 38371; Izzo and Malesani, GCN 38372; Gompertz et al., GCN 38373; Akl et al., GCN 38382; Pankov et. al, GCN 38383, GCN 38395; Shilling & Brivio, GCN 38422; Midavaine et. al, GCN 38438) is well detected in the stacked images from ZTSh on both epochs of 2024-11-30 and 2024-12-01. Preliminary photometry is given below:
Date UT start t-T0 Exp. Filter OT Err. UL(3sigma) Telescope
(mid, days) (s)
2024-11-30 17:38:32 2.066296 11*120 R 22.03 0.14 23.1 ZTSh
2024-12-01 10:31:12 2.793500 46*120 R n/d n/d 21.9 AZT-33IK
2024-12-01 15:19:05 3.000058 48*120 R 23.12 0.11 24.0 ZTSh
The magnitudes were calibrated against nearby PS1 stars (R magnitudes obtained with Lupton transformations) and not corrected for the Galactic extinction. Using the current photometry and our photometry reported previously (Pankov et. al, GCN, 38383) we found that the light curve is well fitted with a simple power-law model with an index of -2.2.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38518
SUBJECT: GRB 241209D: AstroSat CZTI detection
DATE: 24/12/10 09:10:32 GMT
FROM: Gaurav Waratkar at IIT Bombay <gauravwaratkar(a)iitb.ac.in>
M. Tembhurnikar (IUCAA), G. Waratkar (IITB), A. Dasgupta (BITS Pilani, Hyderabad), J. Joshi (IUCAA), A. Vibhute (IUCAA), V. Bhalerao (IITB), D. Bhattacharya (Ashoka University/IUCAA), A. R. Rao (IUCAA/TIFR), and S. Vadawale (PRL) report on behalf of the AstroSat CZTI collaboration:
Analysis of AstroSat CZTI …
[View More]data with the CIFT framework (Sharma et al., 2021, JApA, 42, 73) showed the detection of a long-duration GRB 241209D which was also detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi-GBM Team, GCN Circ. 38507), and Swift/BAT (Page et al., GCN Circ. 38508).
The source was clearly detected in the CsI anticoincidence (Veto) detector in the 100-500 keV energy range. The light curve peaks at 2024-12-09 10:59:47.1 UTC. The measured peak count rate associated with the burst is 739 (+62, -67) counts/s above the background in the combined data of all quadrants, with a total of 9569 (+1176, -1291) counts. The local mean background count rate was 6618 (+7, -8) counts/s. We measure a T90 of 26 (+5, -6) s from the cumulative Veto light curve.
CZTI is built by a TIFR-led consortium of institutes across India, including VSSC, URSC, IUCAA, SAC, and PRL. The Indian Space Research Organisation funded, managed, and facilitated the project.
CZTI GRB detections are reported regularly on the payload site at:
http://astrosat.iucaa.in/czti/?q=grb
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38517
SUBJECT: GRB 241209A: EP-FXT follow-up observations
DATE: 24/12/10 08:36:26 GMT
FROM: Yu-Han Yang at University of Rome Tor Vergata <yyang(a)roma2.infn.it>
E. Troja (U Rome), Y. L. Wang (NAO, CAS), Y. Wang (PMO, CAS), H. L. Peng (NNU), W. D. Zhang (NAO,CAS), Y. -H. Yang (U Rome), R. L. Becerra (U Rome) report on behalf of the Einstein Probe team:
We performed a follow-up observation of the short GRB 241209A detected by Fermi/GBM (GCN 38474) and …
[View More]Swift/BAT (GCN 38476) with the Follow-up X-ray Telescope (FXT) on board the Einstein Probe (EP) mission. The observation began at 2024-12-09T18:20:45 (UTC), about ~ 12.75 hours after the trigger, for a total exposure time of 4093 seconds.
At the position of the XRT counterpart (GCN 38486), we detect no new source. Assuming a photon index of 1.5 and a Galactic absorption of NH = 2E20 cm^-2, we derive an upper limit of ~3E-14 erg/cm2/s (0.5-10 keV; 90% confidence level).
Launched on January 9, 2024, EP is a space X-ray observatory to monitor the soft X-ray sky with X-ray follow-up capability (Yuan et al. 2022, Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics). EP is a mission of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in collaboration with ESA, MPE and CNES.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38516
SUBJECT: GRB 241209B: SVOM/VT afterglow detection
DATE: 24/12/10 07:47:55 GMT
FROM: Chao Wu at NAOC <cwu(a)nao.cas.cn>
SVOM/VT commissioning team: Y. L. Qiu, H. L. Li, L. P. Xin, C. Wu, X. H. Han, J. Wang, W. J. Xie, H. B. Cai, Y. Xu, Y. J. Xiao, P. P. Zhang, J. S. Deng, L. Lan, X. M. Lu, R. S. Zhang, D. H. Zhao (NAOC), J. Zhang, L. J. Dan, G. Y. Zou, C. J. Wang, Y. F. Du, C. Huang (XIOPM), H. Zhou (PMO), C. Plasse (CEA)
SVOM JSWG: Jian-Yan …
[View More]Wei (NAOC), Bertrand Cordier (CEA), Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP), Stéphane Basa (LAM), Arnaud Claret (CEA), Zi-Gao Dai (USTC), Frédéric Daigne (IAP), Jin-Song Deng (NAOC), Olivier Godet (IRAP), Andrea Goldwurm (APC), Diego Götz (CEA), Xu-Hui Han (NAOC), Cyril Lachaud (APC), En-Wei Liang (GXU), Yu-Lei Qiu (NAOC), Susanna Vergani (Obs.Paris), Jing Wang (NAOC), Chao Wu (NAOC), Li-Ping Xin (NAOC), Shao-Lin Xiong (IHEP), Bing Zhang (UNLV)
report on behalf of the SVOM team:
The GRB 241209B (Xie et al., GCN 38478) was observed by on-board VT after the automatic slew of the platform. The VT conducted observations in VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm) channel simultaneously. Revisit observation (TOO-EX mode) was also operated ~ 10 hr after the trigger.
An uncatalogued optical source was detected in VT_B and VT_R band images within the errorbox of source #1 reported by Swift team (GCN 38494), which is 5.7 arcmin to the center of ECLAIRs localization, and further confirmed with the data from revisit observation. The source is located at RA, Dec = 194.63406, +76.17617 which is equivalent to:
RA (J2000) : 12h 58m 32.17s
Dec (J2000): +76d 10' 34.2"
with an uncertainty of 0.5 arcsec.
Its brightness was fading for ~1 magnitude in both of VT_B and VT_R images in the initial 10 hours. The magnitude was VT_B= 23.20 +/-0.20 mag and VT_R= 21.75 +/-0.05 mag in AB magnitude at 2024-12-09T05:04:49 UT, about 1.14 hr post the trigger.
We proposed that this source is the optical counterpart of the burst.
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA, China), National Center for Space Studies (CNES, France) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, China), which is dedicated to observing gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena in the energetic universe. VT was jointly developed by Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), CAS and National astronomical observatories (NAOC),CAS.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38515
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S241210cw: Identification of a GW compact binary merger candidate
DATE: 24/12/10 06:44:31 GMT
FROM: Pan Guo at KAGRA <panguocas(a)gmail.com>
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:
We identified the compact binary merger candidate S241210cw during real-time processing of data from LIGO Hanford Observatory (H1), LIGO Livingston Observatory (L1), and Virgo …
[View More]Observatory (V1) at 2024-12-10 06:06:06.873 UTC (GPS time: 1417845984.873). The candidate was found by the cWB [1], cWB BBH [2], GstLAL [3], MBTA [4], and PyCBC Live [5] analysis pipelines.
S241210cw is an event of interest because its false alarm rate, as estimated by the online analysis, is 6.3e-10 Hz, or about one in 50 years. The event's properties can be found at this URL:
https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S241210cw
After parameter estimation by RapidPE-RIFT [6], the classification of the GW signal, in order of descending probability, is BBH (>99%), Terrestrial (<1%), NSBH (<1%), or BNS (<1%).
Assuming the candidate is astrophysical in origin, the probability that the lighter compact object is consistent with a neutron star mass (HasNS) is <1%. [7] Using the masses and spins inferred from the signal, the probability of matter outside the final compact object (HasRemnant) is <1%. [7] Both HasNS and HasRemnant consider the support of several neutron star equations of state for maximum neutron star mass. The probability that either of the binary components lies between 3 and 5 solar masses (HasMassGap) is <1%.
Two sky maps are available at this time and can be retrieved from the GraceDB event page:
* bayestar.multiorder.fits,0, an initial localization generated by BAYESTAR [8], distributed via GCN notice about 29 seconds after the candidate event time.
* bayestar.multiorder.fits,1, an initial localization generated by BAYESTAR [8], distributed via GCN notice about 5 minutes after the candidate event time.
The preferred sky map at this time is bayestar.multiorder.fits,1. For the bayestar.multiorder.fits,1 sky map, the 90% credible region is 1002 deg2. Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 1910 +/- 521 Mpc (a posteriori mean +/- standard deviation).
For further information about analysis methodology and the contents of this alert, refer to the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Public Alerts User Guide https://emfollow.docs.ligo.org/.
[1] Klimenko et al. PRD 93, 042004 (2016) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.042004
[2] T. Mishra et al. PRD 105, 083018 (2022) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.083018
[3] Tsukada et al. PRD 108, 043004 (2023) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.108.043004 and Ewing et al. (2023) arXiv:2305.05625
[4] Aubin et al. CQG 38, 095004 (2021) doi:10.1088/1361-6382/abe913
[5] Dal Canton et al. ApJ 923, 254 (2021) doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac2f9a
[6] Rose et al. (2022) arXiv:2201.05263 and Pankow et al. PRD 92, 023002 (2015) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.023002
[7] Chatterjee et al. ApJ 896, 54 (2020) doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab8dbe
[8] Singer & Price PRD 93, 024013 (2016) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.024013
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38513
SUBJECT: EP241208a: EP-FXT follow-up observations
DATE: 24/12/10 06:17:47 GMT
FROM: EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta(a)bao.ac.cn>
Y. Wang (PMO, CAS), Y. L. Wang (NAO, CAS), H. L. Peng (NNU), W. D. Zhang (NAO,CAS) report on behalf of the Einstein Probe team:
Following the detection of the fast X-ray transient EP241208a (Wang et al., GCN 38477), we performed an observation with the Follow-up X-ray Telescope (FXT) on board the Einstein Probe mission. …
[View More]The observation started at 2024-12-09 14:46:02 (UTC), about 22 hours after the EP-WXT detection, with an exposure time of 3.7 ks. Within the WXT error circle, an uncatalogued X-ray source is detected at R.A. = 127.8303 deg, DEC = 49.0831 deg (J2000) with an uncertainty of 10 arcsec in radius (90% C.L. statistical and systematic). The average FXT spectrum in 0.5-10 keV can be fitted by an absorbed power law with a photon index of 2.85(+0.64/-0.58) and the column density fixed at the Galactic value of 4.20 x 10^20 cm^-2, giving an average unabsorbed flux of 1.03(+0.34/-0.24) x 10^-13 erg/s/cm^2 in the 0.5-10 keV band. It is noted that a galaxy, SDSS J083120.19+490500.1, with a redshift of z ~ 0.5, is located at approximately 9 arcsec from the FXT position.
Launched on January 9, 2024, EP is a space X-ray observatory to monitor the soft X-ray sky with X-ray follow-up capability (Yuan et al. 2022, Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics).
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38512
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S241210d: Identification of a GW compact binary merger candidate
DATE: 24/12/10 03:15:41 GMT
FROM: ryoya(a)phys.aoyama.ac.jp
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:
We identified the compact binary merger candidate S241210d during real-time processing of data from LIGO Hanford Observatory (H1) and LIGO Livingston Observatory (L1) at 2024-12-10 02:33:35.191 UTC (GPS time:…
[View More] 1417833233.191). The candidate was found by the GstLAL [1] and MBTA [2] analysis pipelines.
S241210d is an event of interest because its false alarm rate, as estimated by the online analysis, is 4.4e-08 Hz, or about one in 8 months. The event's properties can be found at this URL:
https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S241210d
After parameter estimation by RapidPE-RIFT [3], the classification of the GW signal, in order of descending probability, is BBH (97%), Terrestrial (3%), NSBH (<1%), or BNS (<1%).
Assuming the candidate is astrophysical in origin, the probability that the lighter compact object is consistent with a neutron star mass (HasNS) is <1%. [4] Using the masses and spins inferred from the signal, the probability of matter outside the final compact object (HasRemnant) is <1%. [4] Both HasNS and HasRemnant consider the support of several neutron star equations of state for maximum neutron star mass. The probability that either of the binary components lies between 3 and 5 solar masses (HasMassGap) is 4%.
Two sky maps are available at this time and can be retrieved from the GraceDB event page:
* bayestar.multiorder.fits,0, an initial localization generated by BAYESTAR [5], distributed via GCN notice about 29 seconds after the candidate event time.
* bayestar.multiorder.fits,1, an initial localization generated by BAYESTAR [5], distributed via GCN notice about 5 minutes after the candidate event time.
The preferred sky map at this time is bayestar.multiorder.fits,1. For the bayestar.multiorder.fits,1 sky map, the 90% credible region is 4583 deg2. Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 7530 +/- 2565 Mpc (a posteriori mean +/- standard deviation).
For further information about analysis methodology and the contents of this alert, refer to the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Public Alerts User Guide https://emfollow.docs.ligo.org/.
[1] Tsukada et al. PRD 108, 043004 (2023) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.108.043004 and Ewing et al. (2023) arXiv:2305.05625
[2] Aubin et al. CQG 38, 095004 (2021) doi:10.1088/1361-6382/abe913
[3] Rose et al. (2022) arXiv:2201.05263 and Pankow et al. PRD 92, 023002 (2015) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.023002
[4] Chatterjee et al. ApJ 896, 54 (2020) doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab8dbe
[5] Singer & Price PRD 93, 024013 (2016) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.024013
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38510
SUBJECT: GRB 241207B: Fermi GBM Observation
DATE: 24/12/10 01:28:08 GMT
FROM: Lorenzo Scotton at UAH <lscottongcn(a)outlook.com>
L. Scotton (UAH) and C. Meegan (UAH) report on behalf of
the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"At 20:51:01.75 UT on 07 December 2024, the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)
triggered and located GRB 241207B (trigger 755297466/241207869)
which was also detected by Swift/BAT-NITRATES (DeLaunay et al. 2024, GCN 38472)…
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The Fermi GBM on-ground location is consistent with the Swift/BAT-NITRATES position.
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is 64 degrees.
The GBM light curve consists of a single emission episode with a duration (T90)
of about 0.3 s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum
from T0-0.2 to T0+0.4 s is best fit by
a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff.
The power law index is -0.7 +/- 0.2 and the cutoff energy,
parameterized as Epeak, is 344 +/- 110 keV.
The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(3.8 +/- 0.6)E-07 erg/cm^2. The 64-ms peak photon flux measured
starting from T0+0.0 s in the 10-1000 keV band is 7 +/- 1 ph/s/cm^2.
The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary;
final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog:
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/fermi/fermigbrst.html
For Fermi GBM data and info, please visit the official Fermi GBM Support Page:
https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/access/gbm/"
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