TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 35997
SUBJECT: GRB 240329A: GRBAlpha detection
DATE: 24/03/31 14:45:47 GMT
FROM: Marianna Dafčíková at Masaryk University <500025(a)mail.muni.cz>
M. Dafcikova, J. Ripa, M. Kolar (Masaryk U.), A. Pal (Konkoly Observatory), N. Werner (Masaryk U.), M. Ohno, H. Takahashi (Hiroshima U.), L. Meszaros, B. Csak (Konkoly Observatory), N. Husarikova, F. Munz , M. Topinka, M. Duriskova, L. Szakszonova, J.-P. Breuer, F. Hroch (Masaryk U.), T. Urbanec, M. Kasal, A. Povalac (Brno U. of Technology), J. Hudec, J. Kapus, M. Frajt (Spacemanic s.r.o), R. Laszlo, M. Koleda (Needronix s.r.o), M. Smelko, P. Hanak, P. Lipovsky (Technical U. of Kosice), G. Galgoczi (Wigner Research Center/Eotvos U.), Y. Uchida, H. Poon, H. Matake (Hiroshima U.), N. Uchida (ISAS/JAXA), T. Bozoki (Eotvos U.), G. Dalya (Eotvos U.), T. Enoto (Kyoto U.), Zs. Frei (Eotvos U.), G. Friss (Eotvos U.), Y. Fukazawa, K. Hirose (Hiroshima U.), S. Hisadomi (Nagoya U.), Y. Ichinohe (Rikkyo U.), K. Kapas (Eotvos U.), L. L. Kiss (Konkoly Observatory), T. Mizuno (Hiroshima U.), K. Nakazawa (Nagoya U.), H. Odaka (Univ of Tokyo), J. Takatsy (Eotvos U.), K. Torigoe (Hiroshima U.), N. Kogiso, M. Yoneyama (Osaka Metropolitan U.), M. Moritaki (U. Tokyo), T. Kano (U. Michigan) -- the GRBAlpha collaboration.
The long-duration GRB 240329A (Fermi/GBM detection: GCN 35993) was observed by the GRBAlpha 1U CubeSat (Pal et al. 2023, A&A, 677, 40; https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023A%26A...677A..40P/abstract).
The detection was confirmed at the peak time 2024-03-29 21:43:08.0 UTC. The T90 duration measured by GRBAlpha is 6.5 s and the overall significance during T90 reaches 16 sigma.
The light curve obtained by GRBAlpha is available here: https://grbalpha.konkoly.hu/static/share/GRB240329A_GCN.pdf
All GRBAlpha detections are listed at: https://monoceros.physics.muni.cz/hea/GRBAlpha/
GRBAlpha, launched on 2021 March 22, is a demonstration mission for a future CubeSat constellation (Werner et al. Proc. SPIE 2018). The detector of GRBAlpha consists of a 75 x 75 x 5 mm3 CsI scintillator read out by a SiPM array, covering the energy range from ~50 keV to ~1000 keV. To increase the duty cycle and the downlink rate, the upgrade of the on-board data acquisition software stack is in progress. The ground segment is also supported by the radio amateur community and it takes advantage of the SatNOGS network for increased data downlink volume.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 35995
SUBJECT: Fermi GRB 240329A: Global MASTER-Net observations report
DATE: 24/03/29 22:15:55 GMT
FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov(a)xray.sai.msu.ru>
V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, E. Gorbovskoy, K. Zhirkov, N.Tyurina, P.Balanutsa, A.Kuznetsov, V.Senik, D. Vlasenko,
G.Antipov, D.Zimnukhov, E.Minkina, A.Chasovnikov, V.Topolev, D.Kuvshinov, D. Cheryasov, Ya.Kechin, Yu.Tselik, A. Sosnovskij
(Lomonosov Moscow State University, SAI, Physics Department),
R. Podesta, C.Lopez, F. Podesta, C.Francile
(Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar OAFA),
R. Rebolo, M. Serra
(The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias),
D. Buckley
(South African Astronomical Observatory),
O.A. Gress, N.M. Budnev, O.Ershova
(Irkutsk State University, API),
L.Carrasco, J.R.Valdes, V.Chavushyan, V.M.Patino Alvarez, J.Martinez,
A.R.Corella, L.H.Rodriguez
(INAOE, Guillermo Haro Astrophysics Observatory),
A. Tlatov, D. Dormidontov
(Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory),
V. Yurkov, A. Gabovich
(Blagoveschensk Educational State University)
MASTER-SAAO robotic telescope (Global MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru, Lipunov et al., 2010, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2010, 30L) located in South Africa (South African Astronomical Observatory) started inspect of the Fermi GRB 240329A ( Fermi GBM team, GCN 35993) errorbox 567 sec after notice time and 601 sec after trigger time at 2024-03-29 21:53:08 UT, with upper limit up to 16.5 mag. The observations began at zenith distance = 81 deg. The sun altitude is -59.4 deg.
The galactic latitude b = 18 deg., longitude l = 18 deg.
Real time updated cover map and OT discovered available here:
https://master.sai.msu.ru/site/master2/observ.php?id=2410319
We obtain a following upper limits.
Tmid-T0 | Date Time | Site | Coord (J2000) |Filt.| Expt. | Limit| Comment
_________|_____________________|_____________________|____________________________________|_____|_______|_______|________
631 | 2024-03-29 21:53:08 | MASTER-SAAO | (17h 15m 08.53s , -04d 46m 28.6s) | C | 60 | 16.5 |
711 | 2024-03-29 21:54:28 | MASTER-SAAO | (17h 15m 09.18s , -04d 46m 22.7s) | C | 60 | 16.3 |
790 | 2024-03-29 21:55:47 | MASTER-SAAO | (17h 15m 09.74s , -04d 46m 17.5s) | C | 60 | 16.2 |
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 35994
SUBJECT: GRB 240329A: BALROG localization (Fermi Trigger 733441392 / GRB 240329905)
DATE: 24/03/29 22:04:21 GMT
FROM: Jochen Greiner at MPE <jcgrog(a)mpe.mpg.de>
T. Preis, B. Biltzinger, J. Burgess & J. Greiner (all MPE Garching) report:
The public trigdat data of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger
733441392 at 21:43:07 on 29 March 2024 were automatically fitted for spectrum
and sky location with BALROG (Burgess et al. 2018, MNRAS 476, 1427;
Berlato et al. 2019, ApJ 873, 60).
The best-fit position is:
RA(2000.0) = 248.9 deg
Decl.(2000.0) = -1.4 deg
The 1 sigma statistical error radius is 3.4 deg.
We estimate an additional systematic error of 1 deg.
Further details are available at:
https://grb.mpe.mpg.de/grb/GRB240329905/
The Healpix map can be downloaded from:
https://grb.mpe.mpg.de/grb/GRB240329905/healpix
The location parameters are available as JSON at:
https://grb.mpe.mpg.de/grb/GRB240329905/json
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 35991
SUBJECT: Fermi GRB 240328A: Global MASTER-Net observations report
DATE: 24/03/29 17:30:52 GMT
FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov(a)xray.sai.msu.ru>
V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, E. Gorbovskoy, K. Zhirkov, N.Tyurina, P.Balanutsa, A.Kuznetsov, V.Senik, D. Vlasenko,
G.Antipov, D.Zimnukhov, E.Minkina, A.Chasovnikov, V.Topolev, D.Kuvshinov, D. Cheryasov, Ya.Kechin, Yu.Tselik, A. Sosnovskij
(Lomonosov Moscow State University, SAI, Physics Department),
R. Podesta, C.Lopez, F. Podesta, C.Francile
(Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar OAFA),
R. Rebolo, M. Serra
(The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias),
D. Buckley
(South African Astronomical Observatory),
O.A. Gress, N.M. Budnev, O.Ershova
(Irkutsk State University, API),
L.Carrasco, J.R.Valdes, V.Chavushyan, V.M.Patino Alvarez, J.Martinez,
A.R.Corella, L.H.Rodriguez
(INAOE, Guillermo Haro Astrophysics Observatory),
A. Tlatov, D. Dormidontov
(Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory),
V. Yurkov, A. Gabovich
(Blagoveschensk Educational State University)
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 240328A ( Fermi GBM team, GCN 35986) errorbox 1 days 15952 sec after notice time and 1 days 15986 sec after trigger time at 2024-03-29 16:47:48 UT, with upper limit up to 17.5 mag. The observations began at zenith distance = 75 deg. The sun altitude is -35.1 deg.
The galactic latitude b = 41 deg., longitude l = 0 deg.
Real time updated cover map and OT discovered available here:
https://master.sai.msu.ru/site/master2/observ.php?id=2409243
We obtain a following upper limits.
Tmid-T0 | Date Time | Site | Coord (J2000) |Filt.| Expt. | Limit| Comment
_________|_____________________|_____________________|____________________________________|_____|_______|_______|________
102416 | 2024-03-29 16:47:48 | MASTER-Tunka | (14h 43m 59.49s , -16d 29m 36.2s) | C | 60 | 16.7 |
102417 | 2024-03-29 16:47:49 | MASTER-Tunka | (14h 45m 17.79s , -15d 46m 24.1s) | C | 60 | 17.5 |
102503 | 2024-03-29 16:49:15 | MASTER-Tunka | (14h 59m 41.92s , -16d 31m 40.9s) | C | 60 | 15.7 |
102504 | 2024-03-29 16:49:16 | MASTER-Tunka | (15h 01m 00.09s , -15d 48m 28.9s) | C | 60 | 16.2 |
102591 | 2024-03-29 16:50:43 | MASTER-Tunka | (14h 51m 54.70s , -14d 36m 43.5s) | C | 60 | 14.7 |
102625 | 2024-03-29 16:51:17 | MASTER-Tunka | (14h 53m 11.85s , -13d 53m 33.8s) | C | 60 | 15.4 | Coadd
102705 | 2024-03-29 16:52:37 | MASTER-Tunka | (15h 10m 06.13s , -17d 41m 11.5s) | C | 60 | 14.3 | Coadd
102838 | 2024-03-29 16:54:50 | MASTER-Tunka | (15h 07m 35.00s , -14d 36m 19.1s) | C | 60 | 15.5 |
102872 | 2024-03-29 16:55:24 | MASTER-Tunka | (15h 08m 52.07s , -13d 53m 10.3s) | C | 60 | 15.8 | Coadd
104618 | 2024-03-29 17:24:30 | MASTER-Tunka | (14h 43m 57.08s , -16d 28m 17.8s) | C | 60 | 13.5 |
104666 | 2024-03-29 17:25:18 | MASTER-Tunka | (14h 45m 14.95s , -15d 45m 08.6s) | C | 60 | 14.5 | Coadd
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 35990
SUBJECT: X-ray transient EP240315a: continued ATCA monitoring
DATE: 24/03/29 11:07:44 GMT
FROM: Roberto Ricci at INAF-IRA <ricci(a)ira.inaf.it>
R. Ricci (INAF-IRA), D. Dobie (Swinburne/OzGrav), J. K. Leung (U. Toronto/HUJI), E. Troja (U. Rome)
We report on the results of a follow-up observation of the field of AT2024eju (Srivastav et al., GCN35932), the likely optical counterpart to the fast X-ray transient EP240315a (Zhang et al., GCN35931), with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) under project code CX564. The observations were taken from 2024-03-26 06:20 UT to 2024-03-26 11:24 UT, in a single run, at 5.5 and 9 GHz. The primary calibrator was 1934-638 and the phase calibrator 0941-080.
From a preliminary analysis, the radio source reported in our previous GCN (Leung et al., GCN 35968) continues to be detected at a comparable flux level, ~0.1 mJy. Monitoring with ATCA will continue to assess the variability of the source.
We thank the CSIRO Space and Astronomy staff, in particular Jamie Stevens, for supporting these observations in a timely manner. We acknowledge the Gomeroi people as the traditional owners of the Observatory site. The Australia Telescope Compact Array is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (https://ror.org/05qajvd42) which is funded by the Australian Government for operation as a National Facility managed by CSIRO.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 35989
SUBJECT: IceCube-240327B: No candidates from the Zwicky Transient Facility
DATE: 24/03/29 03:10:13 GMT
FROM: Robert Stein at Caltech <rdstein(a)astro.caltech.edu>
Robert Stein (Caltech), Sven Weimann (Ruhr University Bochum), Jannis Necker (DESY), Simeon Reusch (DESY), Anna Franckowiak (DESY/Ruhr University Bochum) report:
On behalf of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) collaborations:
As part of the ZTF neutrino follow up program (Stein et al. 2023), we observed the localization region of the neutrino event IceCube-240327B (Sommani et. al, GCN 35984) with the Palomar 48-inch telescope, equipped with the 47 square degree ZTF camera (Bellm et al. 2019, Graham et al. 2019). We started observations in the g- and r-band beginning at 2024-03-28 03:32 UTC, approximately 11.3 hours after event time. We covered 88.6% (5.7 sq deg) of the reported localization region. This estimate accounts for chip gaps. Each exposure was 300s with a typical depth of 21.0 mag.
The images were processed in real-time through the ZTF reduction and image subtraction pipelines at IPAC to search for potential counterparts (Masci et al. 2019). AMPEL (Nordin et al. 2019, Stein et al. 2021) was used to search the alerts database for candidates. We reject stellar sources (Tachibana and Miller 2018) and moving objects, and apply machine learning algorithms (Mahabal et al. 2019) . We are left with the following high-significance transient candidates by our pipeline, all lying within the 90.0% localization of the skymap.
No candidate counterparts were detected.
ZTF and GROWTH are worldwide collaborations comprising Caltech, USA; IPAC, USA; WIS, Israel; OKC, Sweden; JSI/UMd, USA; DESY, Germany; TANGO, Taiwan; UW Milwaukee, USA; LANL, USA; TCD, Ireland; IN2P3, France.
GROWTH acknowledges generous support of the NSF under PIRE Grant No 1545949.
Alert distribution service provided by DIRAC@UW (Patterson et al. 2019).
Alert database searches are done by AMPEL (Nordin et al. 2019).
Alert filtering is performed with the nuztf (Stein et al. 2021, https://github.com/desy-multimessenger/nuztf ).
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 35988
SUBJECT: GRB 240328C: Glowbug gamma-ray detection
DATE: 24/03/28 20:59:17 GMT
FROM: C.C. Cheung at Naval Research Lab <Teddy.Cheung(a)nrl.navy.mil>
C.C. Cheung, R. Woolf, M. Kerr, J.E. Grove (NRL), A. Goldstein (USRA), C.A. Wilson-Hodge, D. Kocevski (MSFC), and M.S. Briggs (UAH) report:
The Glowbug gamma-ray telescope [1,2], operating on the International Space Station, reports the detection of GRB 240328C.
Using an adaptive window with a resolution of 32-ms, the burst onset is determined to be 2024-03-28 00:37:54.024 with a duration of 4.1 s and a total significance of about 16.9 sigma. The light curve comprises a single peak.
Using a standard power-law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff [3] to model the emission over this duration results in a poorly constrained power-law index and a cutoff energy ("Epeak") of 213 keV. The modeled 10-10000 keV fluence is 5.3e-07 erg/cm^2.
The best-fit localization is RA, Decl. (J2000, deg) = 165.0, 30.6 with a radius of 27.8 deg (95% confidence), with a highly uncertain systematic uncertainty.
The analysis results presented here are preliminary and use a response function that lacks a detailed characterization of the surrounding passive structure of the ISS.
Glowbug is a NASA-funded technology demonstrator for sensitive, low-cost gamma-ray transient telescopes developed, built, and operated by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) with support from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USRA, and NASA MSFC. It was launched on 2023 March 15 aboard the Department of Defense Space Test Program’s STP-H9 to the ISS. The detector comprises 12 large-area (15 cm x 15 cm) CsI:Tl panels covering the surface of a half cube, and two hexagonal (5-cm diameter, 10-cm length) CLLB scintillators, giving it a large field of view (instantaneous FoV ~2/3 sky) over a wide energy band of 50 keV to >2 MeV.
[1] Grove, J.E. et al. 2020, Proc. Yamada Conf. LXXI, arXiv:2009.11959
[2] Woolf, R.S. et al. 2022, Proc. SPIE, 12181, id. 121811O
[3] Goldstein, A. et al. 2020, ApJ 895, 40, arXiv :1909.03006
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