TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38509
SUBJECT: GRB 241209A: BOOTES-7 and 2.2m CAHA early optical upper limits
DATE: 24/12/10 00:49:36 GMT
FROM: Youdong HU at INAF-OAB <huyoudong072(a)hotmail.com>
Y.-D. Hu (INAF-OAB), I. Perez-Garcia, A. J. Castro-Tirado, E. Fernandez-Garcia, S.-Y. Wu, M.D. Caballero-Garcia, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, S. Guziy, G. Garcia-Segura, I. Olivares, A. Sota (IAA-CSIC), C. Perez del Pulgar, A. Castellon, S. Castillo (Univ. de Malaga), L. Hernandez-Garcia (Univ. de …
[View More]Valparaiso), B.-B. Zhang (Nanjing Univ.) and A. Maury (Space, San Pedro de Atacama), on behalf of a larger collaboration, report:
Following the detection of the short-duration GRB 241209A by both Fermi/GBM (Fermi Team, GCN 38474) and Swift/BAT (Parsotan et al., GCN 38476), the 0.6m BOOTES-7 robotic telescope at San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) observed the GRB location starting on Dec 9, 05:39:06 UT (202 s after trigger) in different optical bands. No new optical source is detected on the co-added images (10x30s, clear-filter) at the position of the proposed near-IR counterpart candidate (Schneider et al. GCNC 38506; see also de Ugarte Postigo et al. CGCN 38484) down to 19.9 mag, consistent with other early-time reported limits (Kumar et al. GCNC 38481, Lipunov et al. GCNC 38483, Brivio et al., GCNC 38492, Pillas et al., GCNC 38500).
Additional observations were taken at the 2.2m CAHA telescope in Southern Spain (3x60s, starting on Dec 9, 06:03 UT, 28 min after trigger). Limiting magnitude for the resulting co-added image was 22.1 mag.
We thank the staff at Observatorio Astronomico de Calar Alto and San Pedro de Atacama celestial observations for their excellent support.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38508
SUBJECT: GRB 241209D: Swift-XRT refined Analysis
DATE: 24/12/10 00:31:53 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
K.L. Page (U. Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), E. Ambrosi
(INAF-IASFPA) , M. Capalbi (INAF-IASFPA), M. Perri (SSDC & INAF-OAR),
S. Dichiara (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), D.N. Burrows (PSU) and P.A. Evans
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
We have analysed 6.4 ks of XRT data for GRB 241209D, from …
[View More]260 s to 37.7
ks after the BAT trigger. The data comprise 22 s in Windowed Timing
(WT) mode with the remainder in Photon Counting (PC) mode.
The light curve can be modelled with an initial power-law decay with an
index of alpha=4.3 (+3.4, -2.5), followed by a break at T+626 s to an
alpha of 0.66 (+/-0.13).
A spectrum formed from the PC mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.89 (+0.29, -0.26). The
best-fitting absorption column is 5.9 (+6.9, -3.6) x 10^20 cm^-2,
consistent with the Galactic value of 2.3 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Willingale et
al. 2013). The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux
conversion factor deduced from this spectrum is 3.5 x 10^-11 (4.0 x
10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1.
A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:
Total column: 5.9 (+6.9, -3.6) x 10^20 cm^-2
Galactic foreground: 2.3 x 10^20 cm^-2
Excess significance: <1.6 sigma
Photon index: 1.89 (+0.29, -0.26)
If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of
0.66, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 0.014 count s^-1,
corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 5.1 x
10^-13 (5.8 x 10^-13) erg cm^-2 s^-1.
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/01273106.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38507
SUBJECT: GRB 241209D: Fermi GBM Observation
DATE: 24/12/09 22:50:55 GMT
FROM: Christian Malacaria at INAF-OAR <cmalacaria.astro(a)gmail.com>
C. Malacaria (INAF-OAR) and C. Meegan (UAH) report on behalf of
the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"At 10:59:44.09 UT on 09 December 2024, the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)
triggered and located GRB 241209D (trigger 755434789/241209458).
which was also detected by Swift BAT (T. M. Parsotan et al.…
[View More] 2024, GCN 38489,
M.R. Goad et al. 2024, GCN 38491).
The Fermi GBM on-ground location is consistent with the Swift BAT position.
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is 82 degrees.
The GBM light curve consists of a single emission episode with a duration (T90)
of about 45 s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum
from T0-0.8 to T0+44.3 s is best fit by
a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff.
The power law index is -0.40 +/- 0.07 and the cutoff energy,
parameterized as Epeak, is 110 +/- 3 keV.
The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(9.5 +/- 0.2)E-06 erg/cm^2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured
starting from T0+5.9 s in the 10-1000 keV band is 4.4 +/- 0.3 ph/s/cm^2.
A Band function fits the spectrum equally well
with Epeak= 107 +/- 4 keV, alpha = -0.35 +/- 0.08 and beta = -3.4 +/- 0.6.
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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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38506
SUBJECT: GRB 241209A: VLT/HAWK-I near-IR counterpart candidate
DATE: 24/12/09 22:50:27 GMT
FROM: Benjamin Schneider at MIT <bschn(a)mit.edu>
B. Schneider (LAM), N. Habeeb (U. Leicester), D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud Univ.), A. Martin-Carrillo (UCD), A. de Ugarte Postigo (OCA and LAM) and N. R. Tanvir (U. Leicester) report on behalf of the Stargate collaboration:
We observed the field of the short GRB 241209A (Parsotan et al., GCN 38476; …
[View More]Fermi GBM team, GCN 38474) with the ESO Very Large Telescope, equipped with the HAWK-I near-infrared camera. We obtained 12 min exposures in both the H and Ks bands, as well as an 11 min exposure in J band starting at 07:51:24 UT on 2024-12-09, i.e. 2.3 hr after the Swift trigger. The observations were obtained under excellent seeing (0.5" in the J band).
The two objects mentioned by de Ugarte Postigo et al. (GCN 38484; see also Saccardi et al., GCN 38487) are both detected in all filters.
Furthermore, in all three bands we detect a faint source overlapping the wings of the brighter galaxy mentioned by de Ugarte Postigo et al. (GCN 38484), approximately 1" SE of the galaxy nucleus. The coordinates of the source are:
RA(J2000) = 10:21:35.14 = 155.39642
DEC(J2000) = +06:19:44.5 = 6.32902
with an uncertainty of 0.5".
At the present time, we cannot state whether this source is transient or pre-existing, as we lack NIR comparison imaging of sufficient quality. Under a worse seeing, this source would be easily blended within the surrounding galaxy light. Further imaging is planned to assess fading.
A comparison of the VLT/FORS2 R-band image (seeing 1.0") reported by de Ugarte Postigo et al. (GCN 38484) with the Legacy survey r-band image reveals only a marginal (~3 sigma, or ~0.1 mag) flux excess at the location of the HAWK-I candidate. Thus, due to systematic errors arising from different PSF and filter shape, we cannot confirm the presence of this source in the FORS2 R-band image at the present time.
We acknowledge the excellent support provided by the Paranal staff, in particular Jonathan Smoker and Juan Carlos Olivares.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38505
SUBJECT: GRB 241209A: COLIBRÍ detection of the afterglow
DATE: 24/12/09 22:12:33 GMT
FROM: Damien Dornic <ddornic(a)km3net.de>
J.-G. Ducoin (CPPM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), S. Antier (OCA), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Francis Fortin (IRAP) and Simona Lombardo (LAM), report:
We imaged the field of GRB …
[View More]241209D detected by Swift/BAT and Fermi/GBM (GCN Circ. 38488, 38489, 38491) during the commissioning of the COLIBRÍ (SVOM/F-GFT) telescope at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in Mexico.
The observations started 21 minutes after the GRB trigger. We observed with the engineering test camera in a red filter that approximates SDSS r. The data were reduced using custom software and then analysed and calibrated against the PS1 catalog using the STDWeb service (Karpov et al. 2022).
In 4260 seconds of exposure from 2024/12/09 11:20:50 (UT) to 12:59:15, we detect the optical counterpart with:
r = 20.04 +/-0.05 (SNR ~21.6)
This source is right next to a catalogued galaxy in PAN-STARRs with rmag of ~21.44. Given the significant difference in magnitude and the slight visible offset with the PAN-STARRs object position, we consider this to be the Afterglow of GRB 241209D.
We warmly thank the COLIBRI engineering team and the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38504
SUBJECT: GRB 241209A: COLIBRÍ Optical Upper Limit
DATE: 24/12/09 21:59:11 GMT
FROM: Damien Dornic <ddornic(a)km3net.de>
J.-G. Ducoin (CPPM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), S. Antier (OCA), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Francis Fortin (IRAP) and Simona Lombardo (LAM), report:
We imaged the field of GRB …
[View More]241209A detected by Swift/BAT and Fermi/GBM (GCN Circ. 38474, 38476, 38479) during the commissioning of the COLIBRÍ (SVOM/F-GFT) telescope at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in Mexico.
The observations started 171 minutes after the GRB trigger. We observed with the engineering test camera in a red filter that approximates SDSS r. The data were reduced using custom software and then analysed and calibrated against the PS1 catalog using the STDWeb service (Karpov et al. 2022).
In 7680 seconds of exposure, we estimate an upper limit of 23.07 mag (3-sigma). This limiting magnitude is consistent with other optical observations of GOTO (Kumar et al, GCN Circ. 38481), MASTER (Lipunov et al., GCN Circ. 38483), VLT (de Ugarte Postigo et al, GCN Circ. 38484), REM (Brivio et al., GCN Circ. 38492) and GRANDMA/TAROT (Pillas et al., GCN Circ. 38500).
We warmly thank the COLIBRI engineering team and the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38503
SUBJECT: Fermi GRB 241209D: Global MASTER-Net observations report
DATE: 24/12/09 21:46:04 GMT
FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov(a)xray.sai.msu.ru>
V.Lipunov, E.Gorbovskoy, N.Tiurina, P.Balanutsa, , D.Vlasenko, I.Panchenko,
A.Kuznetsov, G.Antipov, A.Sankovich, A.Sosnovskij, Yu.Tselik, M.Gulyaev, Ya.Kechin,
V.Senik, A.Chasovnikov, K.Labsina, I. Gorbunov (Lomonosov MSU),
O.Gress, N.Budnev (ISU),
C.Francile, F. Podesta,…
[View More] R.Podesta, E. Gonzalez (Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (OAFA),
A. Tlatov, D. Dormidontov (Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory),
A. Gabovich, V.Yurkov (Blagoveschensk Educational StateUniversity)
D.Buckley (SAAO),
R.Rebolo (The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias),
L.Carrasco, J.R.Valdes, V.Chavushyan, V.M.Patino Alvarez, J.Martinez,
A.R.Corella, L.H.Rodriguez (INAOE, Guillermo Haro Astrophysics Observatory)
MASTER-Tunka robotic telescope (Global MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru, Lipunov et al., 2010, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2010, 30L) located in Russia (Applied Physics Institute, Irkutsk State University) started inspect of the Fermi GRB 241209D ( Fermi GBM team, GCN 38488) errorbox 33914 sec after notice time and 33953 sec after trigger time at 2024-12-09 20:25:37 UT, with upper limit up to 19.2 mag. The observations began at zenith distance = 75 deg. The sun altitude is -41.5 deg.
The galactic latitude b = 60 deg., longitude l = 302 deg.
Real time updated cover map and OT discovered available here:
https://master.sai.msu.ru/site/master2/observ.php?id=2701308
We obtain a following upper limits.
Tmid-T0 | Date Time | Site | Coord (J2000) |Filt.| Expt. | Limit| Comment
_________|_____________________|_____________________|____________________________________|_____|_______|_______|________
34044 | 2024-12-09 20:25:37 | MASTER-Tunka | (12h 40m 42.72s , -02d 49m 30.7s) | C | 180 | 15.0 |
34224 | 2024-12-09 20:25:37 | MASTER-Tunka | (12h 40m 42.76s , -02d 49m 32.4s) | C | 540 | 19.2 | Coadd
35267 | 2024-12-09 20:46:01 | MASTER-Tunka | (12h 40m 48.04s , -02d 50m 25.9s) | C | 180 | 18.8 |
36758 | 2024-12-09 21:10:52 | MASTER-Tunka | (12h 40m 47.42s , -02d 47m 55.6s) | C | 180 | 19.0 |
37967 | 2024-12-09 21:31:01 | MASTER-Tunka | (12h 40m 42.47s , -02d 48m 50.9s) | C | 180 | 19.3 |
Filter C is a clear (unfiltred) band.
The observation and reduction will continue.
The message may be cited.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38502
SUBJECT: GRB 241209A: Fermi GBM Observation
DATE: 24/12/09 21:39:39 GMT
FROM: rhamburg(a)usra.edu
R. Hamburg (USRA) and C. Meegan (UAH) report on behalf of
the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"At 05:35:44.16 UT on 09 December 2024, the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)
triggered and located GRB 241209A (trigger 755415349/241209233), which was
also detected by Swift BAT (Parsotan et al. 2024, GCN 38476) and Swift XRT
(Evans et al. 2024, GCN …
[View More]38486). The Fermi GBM on-ground location is
consistent with the Swift position. VLT has also performed optical
observations of GRB 241209A (de Ugarte Postigo et al., GCN 38484) and
measured a potential redshift of z = 1.490 (Saccardi et al. 2024, GCN 38487).
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is 74 degrees.
The GBM light curve consists of a single peak with a duration (T90)
of about 0.1 s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum from
T0-0.096 to T0+0.128 s is best fit by a power law function with
an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law index is
-0.02 +/- 0.44 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 140 +/- 25 keV.
The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(1.2 +/- 0.2)E-07 erg/cm^2. The 64-ms peak photon flux measured
starting from T0-0.064 s in the 10-1000 keV band is 5.3 +/- 0.9 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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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38501
SUBJECT: GRB 241209C: Swift/BAT-GUANO localization skymap of a burst
DATE: 24/12/09 21:29:41 GMT
FROM: Jimmy DeLaunay at Penn State <delauj2(a)gmail.com>
James DeLaunay (PSU), Samuele Ronchini (PSU), Aaron Tohuvavohu (Caltech), Gayathri Raman (PSU), Jamie A. Kennea (PSU), Tyler Parsotan (NASA GSFC) report:
Swift/BAT did not localize GRB 241209C onboard (T0: 2024-12-09T07:22:54.60 UTC, Fermi trig 755421779)
The Fermi notice, distributed in …
[View More]near real-time, triggered the Swift Mission Operations Center operated Gamma-ray Urgent Archiver for Novel Opportunities (GUANO; Tohuvavohu et al. 2020, ApJ, 900, 1).
Upon trigger by this notice, GUANO sent a command to the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) to save 200 seconds of BAT event-mode data from [-50,+150] seconds around the time of the burst. All the requested event mode data was delivered to the ground.
The BAT likelihood search, NITRATES (DeLaunay + Tohuvavohu 2022, ApJ, 941, 169), performed on the temporal window [T0-20 s, T0+20 s], detects the burst with a sqrt(TS) of 24.5 in a 8.192 s analysis time bin, starting at T0 - 0.0 s.
Using the NITRATES analysis, parameter estimation was performed to obtain the localization of this burst in the form of a HEALPIX Multi-Order Coverage (MOC) skymap. This localization accounts for both statistical and systematic errors. More details in the creation and calibration of these maps will soon be published (DeLaunay et al. 2024. in prep)
The 90% credible area is 920 deg2 and the 50% credible area is 298 deg2.
The integrated probability inside the coded field of view is <1%.
The NITRATES skymap is consistent with the Fermi localization reported in the final position notice (GCN 38482). The combined Fermi/GBM+NITRATES 90% credible area is 162 deg2 and the 50% credible area is 46 deg2.
A plot of the probability skymap can be viewed here:
[skymap_plot](https://guano.swift.psu.edu/trigger_report?id=755421809/#:~:te…
The probability skymap file can be downloaded from the link here
[skymap_fits_file](https://guano.swift.psu.edu/files/755421809/0_n_PROBMAP)
Instructions on how to read and manipulate this map can be found here:
https://guano.swift.psu.edu/documentation
More details about this burst can be found on the trigger report page here:
https://guano.swift.psu.edu/trigger_report?id=755421809
GUANO is a fully autonomous, extremely low latency, spacecraft commanding pipeline designed for targeted recovery of BAT event mode data around the times of compelling astrophysical events to enable more sensitive GRB searches.
A live reporting of Swift/BAT event data recovered by GUANO can be found at:
https://www.swift.psu.edu/guano/
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38500
SUBJECT: GRB 241209A: GRANDMA/TAROT upper limit
DATE: 24/12/09 21:20:40 GMT
FROM: marion.pillas(a)ligo.org
M. Pillas (ULiege), S. Antier (OCA), O. Pyshna (Caltech), N. Guessoum (AUS), A. Klotz (IRAP), C. Andrade (UMN), M. Boer, C. Limonta (OCA), S. Karpov (FZU), M. Coughlin (UMN), , P. Hello (IJCLAB), P-A Duverne (APC), T. Pradier (Unistra/IPHC), D.Turpin (CEA-Saclay/Irfu), on behalf of the GRANDMA collaboration:
We observed the field of GRB 241209A,…
[View More] detected by Fermi/GBM (GCN 38474) and SWIFT/BAT (GCN 38476) using TAROT,/TCA and TCH. Observations began 3.5 min after Swift/T0 for TCA and 3.7 minutes after the trigger for TCH and both without a filter and continue up to 180 min after T0.
Weather was not great at TCA with an upper limit of 16 mag in r-mag of the image.
We did not detect any optical afterglow candidate with TCH to an upper limit of 19 mag in r and from T0+3 min to T0+6.1min within a circle of 6 arcmin radius centered on the most updated Swift/XRT source location (GCN 38486).
It is consistent with GOTO's report (GCN 38481) and VLT's report (GCN 38484).
All the data have been reduced by a single data processing pipeline, STDPipe (Karpov et al., 2022).
GRANDMA is a worldwide telescope network (grandma.ijclab.in2p3.fr) devoted to the observation of transients in the context of multi-messenger astrophysics (Antier et al. 2020 MNRAS 497, 5518). Kilonova-Catcher (KNC) is the citizen science program of GRANDMA (http://kilonovacatcher.in2p3.fr/).
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