TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 36747
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S240624cd: Retraction of GW unmodeled transient candidate
DATE: 24/06/24 23:08:59 GMT
FROM: hsiang-yu.huang(a)ligo.org
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:
The trigger S240624cd is no longer considered to be a candidate of interest. The power in the strain channel was also witnessed in environmental monitors pointing to a data quality problem with the Livingston …
[View More]detector. The candidate found was not coherent between the Livingston and the Hanford detectors, and was not confirmed by similar burst pipeline analyses.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 36746
SUBJECT: GRB240615A: Gemini-North observations of the BAT and XRT positions
DATE: 24/06/24 19:59:01 GMT
FROM: Jillian Rastinejad at Northwestern Univ. <jillianrastinejad2024(a)u.northwestern.edu>
Jillian Rastinejad, Wen-fai Fong and Charles D. Kilpatrick (Northwestern) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
We observed the location of the short-duration GRB 240615A (Fermi GBM Team GCN 36671, DeLaunay et al. GCN 36672, Frederiks et al. GCN …
[View More]36677, Tan et al. GCN 36682) with the 5.5 arcminute square field of view Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) mounted on Gemini-North (PI: Fong). We obtained two epochs of i-band imaging, each consisting of two pointings, at 2.8 and 4.8 days post-burst. Our first pointing was centered at R.A. = 21:44:39.51, Decl. = 38:35:31.2 (J2000), the approximate intersection of the IPN and BAT localizations (DeLaunay et al. GCN 36672, Kozyrev et al. GCN 36726). The second pointing was centered on XRT Source 1 (Page et al. GCN 36683). Observations were taken at a median airmass of 1.1 and in <0.8'' seeing. We perform image subtraction between the two epochs using HOTPANTS (Becker et al. 2015). Following visual inspection, we do not detect a clear optical afterglow in either pointing, though we note the presence of several residuals from saturated stars in the first pointing. Calibrated to Pan-STARRS1, we place an upper limit on an optical afterglow within these pointings at 2.8 days post-burst of i > 25.7 AB mag, not corrected for Galactic extinction.
Our observations covered the location of the optical Source 1 reported in Busmann et al. GCN 36706. We detect the source in both epochs. We do not obtain a significant residual at the position of the source following image subtraction.
We thank Aaron Tohuvavohu for helpful communication on the burst pointings and Jennifer Andrews and Kristin Chiboucas for the rapid planning and execution of these observations.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 36744
SUBJECT: GRB 240619A: detection of a radio counterpart with AMI-LA
DATE: 24/06/24 10:36:50 GMT
FROM: Lauren Rhodes at Oxford <lauren.rhodes(a)physics.ox.ac.uk>
Lauren Rhodes, Rob Fender (Oxford), Dave Green, Dave Titterington (Cambridge) report:
We observed the field of GRB 240619a (GCN 36694) with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager - Large Array (AMI-LA) at 15.5 GHz beginning at UT 13:45:34 on 22-June-2024 for a total of 4 hours. The flux …
[View More]standard 3c286 was used to calibrate the bandpass response and flux scale of the AMI-LA and J1051+2119 was used as an interleaved complex gain calibrator.
We detected an unresolved radio source at the position of the afterglow candidate (GCN 36715) with a flux density of about 1.5mJy/beam. The rms noise in the field is about 60uJy/beam.
More observations are ongoing.
We thank the staff at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory for carrying out these observations and operating the AMI-LA.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 36743
SUBJECT: GRB 240624A: Swift detection of a burst
DATE: 24/06/24 06:10:39 GMT
FROM: David Palmer at LANL <palmer(a)lanl.gov>
N. J. Klingler (GSFC/UMBC/CRESSTII), K. L. Page (U Leicester) and
D. M. Palmer (LANL) report on behalf of the Neil Gehrels Swift
Observatory Team:
At 06:01:09 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and
located GRB 240624A (trigger=1238732). Swift did not slew to the location
due to an observing constraint. …
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RA, Dec 102.444, -6.543 which is
RA(J2000) = 06h 49m 47s
Dec(J2000) = -06d 32' 36"
with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including
systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve showed a complex
structure with a duration of about 5 sec. The peak count rate
was ~2200 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~1 sec after the trigger.
Due to a Sun observing constraint, Swift cannot slew to the BAT
position until 10:01 UT on 2024 August 15. There will thus be no XRT or
UVOT data for this trigger before this time.
Burst Advocate for this burst is N. J. Klingler (noelklin AT umbc.edu).
Please contact the BA by email if you require additional information
regarding Swift followup of this burst. In extremely urgent cases, after
trying the Burst Advocate, you can contact the Swift PI by phone (see
Swift TOO web site for information: http://www.swift.psu.edu/)
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 36742
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S240623dg: Retraction of GW compact binary merger candidate
DATE: 24/06/23 23:47:57 GMT
FROM: Young-Min Kim at KASI <young-min.kim(a)ligo.org>
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:
The trigger S240429an is no longer considered to be a candidate of interest. This candidate was initially identified by one or more early-warning analyses by matching partial signal …
[View More]templates to the data. Analysis of additional data up to the putative merger time, with full signal templates, did not make a significant detection, indicating that the initial candidate was likely due to transient noise.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 36741
SUBJECT: EP240618a: NOT further optical observations
DATE: 24/06/23 02:56:10 GMT
FROM: Dong Xu at NAOC/CAS <dxu(a)nao.cas.cn>
X. Liu, S.Y. Fu, J. An, Z.P. Zhu, S.Q. Jiang, D. Xu (NAOC), M. Turkki (NOT) report on behalf of a large collaboration:
Following the first epoch of the observations of EP240618a (Sun et al., GCN 36690) at the the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT, Liu et al., GCN 36736), we have carried out the second epoch at the NOT.…
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Observations started at 2024-06-23T00:13:37, i.e., ~ 4.8 day after the EP trigger, and again 12x120 s Sloan z-filter images were obtained.
The candidate in the 1st epoch is clearly detected in the 2nd epoch with comparable brightness in z-band. Specifically, it has z = 21.03 +/- 0.05 in the 1st epoch and z = 21.05 +/- 0.06 mag in the 2nd epoch, more or less affected by the nearby bright star ~1.3 arcsec away and the photometric method.
As the candidate is probably mixed with the bright star in the Pan-STARRS image, we also measure the candidate+star in the NOT images. Both NOT epochs yield the same magnitude of z ~ 18.4 mag, being consistent with the value by Pan-STARRS.
Hence, we conclude that the candidate is likely not the counterpart of EP240618a.
Meanwhile, we searched for other possible candidates by image subtraction of the two NOT epochs within the 30-arcsec EP/FXT error circle (Sun et al., GCN 36690). Neither uncatalogued optical transient nor apparent brightening of catalogued source is found.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 36740
SUBJECT: GRB 240619A: J-band detection with WINTER
DATE: 24/06/23 01:24:35 GMT
FROM: Geoffrey Mo at MIT <gmo(a)mit.edu>
Geoffrey Mo (MIT), Robert Stein (Caltech), Benjamin Schneider (MIT), Viraj Karambelkar (Caltech), Danielle Frostig (MIT), Nathan Lourie (MIT), Tomas Ahumada (Caltech), Robert Simcoe (MIT), and Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech) report:
We observed the field of GRB 240619A (Fermi GBM team, GCN 36694; Greiner et al., GCN 36695; Dalessi et …
[View More]al., GCN 36717; Torii et al., GCN 36719; Dafcikova et al., GCN 36724) in the near-infrared J-band with the Palomar 1-m telescope, equipped with the 1-square degree WINTER camera (Lourie et al. 2020).
Observations began at 2024-06-21T03:44:09 UTC (~48 hours after the GRB) and consisted of 30 x 120 s exposures. The images were processed using the WINTER data reduction pipeline (https://github.com/winter-telescope/mirar, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10888436), with image subtraction performed relative to J-band images from the UKIRT Hemisphere survey (Dye et al., 2017).
We report the marginal (3-sigma) detection of a source at the position of the GOTO-discovered counterpart (Gompertz et al., GCN 36715; Lipunov et al., GCN 36708; Evans et al., GCN 36720; Capalbi et al., GCN 36721), with magnitude J ~ 19.3 (AB).
WINTER (Wide-field INfrared Transient ExploreR) is a partnership between MIT and Caltech, housed at Palomar Observatory, and funded by NSF MRI, NSF AAG, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 36739
SUBJECT: GRB 240619A: J-band detection with WINTER
DATE: 24/06/23 01:24:30 GMT
FROM: Geoffrey Mo at MIT <gmo(a)mit.edu>
Geoffrey Mo (MIT), Robert Stein (Caltech), Benjamin Schneider (MIT), Viraj Karambelkar (Caltech), Danielle Frostig (MIT), Nathan Lourie (MIT), Tomas Ahumada (Caltech), Robert Simcoe (MIT), and Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech) report:
We observed the field of GRB 240619A (Fermi GBM team, GCN 36694; Greiner et al., GCN 36695; Dalessi et …
[View More]al., GCN 36717; Torii et al., GCN 36719; Dafcikova et al., GCN 36724) in the near-infrared J-band with the Palomar 1-m telescope, equipped with the 1-square degree WINTER camera (Lourie et al. 2020).
Observations began at 2024-06-21T03:44:09 UTC (~48 hours after the GRB) and consisted of 30 x 120 s exposures. The images were processed using the WINTER data reduction pipeline (https://github.com/winter-telescope/mirar, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10888436), with image subtraction performed relative to J-band images from the UKIRT Hemisphere survey (Dye et al., 2017).
We report the marginal (3-sigma) detection of a source at the position of the GOTO-discovered counterpart (Gompertz et al., GCN 36715; Lipunov et al., GCN 36708; Evans et al., GCN 36720; Capalbi et al., GCN 36721), with magnitude J ~ 19.3 (AB).
WINTER (Wide-field INfrared Transient ExploreR) is a partnership between MIT and Caltech, housed at Palomar Observatory, and funded by NSF MRI, NSF AAG, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
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