TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37348
SUBJECT: GRB 240828B: GWAC-F50A optical upper limit
DATE: 24/08/30 06:14:43 GMT
FROM: Liping Xin at NAOC, SVOM <xlp(a)nao.cas.cn>
SVOM/GWAC-F50A team:L.P.Xin(NAOC), Y.G.Yang(HNU), X.H.Han, X.M.Lu, R.S.Zhang, Y.Xu, Y.J.Xiao, P.P.Zhang, H.B.Cai, Y.L.Qiu, H.L.Li,C.Wu, L.Lan, W.J.Xie, J.Y.Wei(NAOC),J.Wang,X.G.Wang(GXU)
SVOM JSWG: Jian-Yan Wei (NAOC, China), Bertrand Cordier (CEA, F), Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP, CN), Stephane Basa (LAM, F), Jean-Luc …
[View More]Attéia (IRAP, F), Arnaud Claret (CEA, F), Zi-Gao Dai (USTC, CN), Frederic Daigne (IAP, F), Jin-Song Deng (NAOC, CN), Andrea Goldwurm (APC, F), Diego Götz (CEA, F), Xu-Hui Han (NAOC, CN), Cyril Lachaud (APC, F), En-Wei Liang (GXU, CN), Yu-Lei Qiu (NAOC, CN), Susanna Vergani (Obs.Paris, F), Jing Wang (NAOC, CN), Chao Wu(NAOC, CN), Li-Ping Xin (NAOC,CN), Bing Zhang (UNLV, CN)
We began to observe GRB 240828B (Le Provost et al., GCN 37318) detected by SVOM/ECLAIRs, with GWAC-F50A telescope at Xinglong station,China,at 16:45:50(UT), August 28,2024, about 3.55 hours after the burst. The weather was not good.
After stacking 20*100 seconds, no any new sources were detected in our stacked image within the X-ray afterglow error circles (Page et al. GCN 37334) down to a limit magnitude of 18.5 mag in R band at the mid-time of 3.83 hours post the burst, calibrated to several nearby USNO B1.0 stars.
We acknowledge the excellent support from observation assistant Yangtong Zheng and Winlong Dong.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37348
SUBJECT: GRB 240828B: GWAC-F50A optical upper limit
DATE: 24/08/30 06:14:43 GMT
FROM: Liping Xin at NAOC, SVOM <xlp(a)nao.cas.cn>
SVOM/GWAC-F50A team:L.P.Xin(NAOC), Y.G.Yang(HNU), X.H.Han, X.M.Lu, R.S.Zhang, Y.Xu, Y.J.Xiao, P.P.Zhang, H.B.Cai, Y.L.Qiu, H.L.Li,C.Wu, L.Lan, W.J.Xie, J.Y.Wei(NAOC),J.Wang,X.G.Wang(GXU)
SVOM JSWG: Jian-Yan Wei (NAOC, China), Bertrand Cordier (CEA, F), Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP, CN), Stephane Basa (LAM, F), Jean-Luc …
[View More]Attéia (IRAP, F), Arnaud Claret (CEA, F), Zi-Gao Dai (USTC, CN), Frederic Daigne (IAP, F), Jin-Song Deng (NAOC, CN), Andrea Goldwurm (APC, F), Diego Götz (CEA, F), Xu-Hui Han (NAOC, CN), Cyril Lachaud (APC, F), En-Wei Liang (GXU, CN), Yu-Lei Qiu (NAOC, CN), Susanna Vergani (Obs.Paris, F), Jing Wang (NAOC, CN), Chao Wu(NAOC, CN), Li-Ping Xin (NAOC,CN), Bing Zhang (UNLV, CN)
We began to observe GRB 240828B (Le Provost et al., GCN 37318) detected by SVOM/ECLAIRs, with GWAC-F50A telescope at Xinglong station,China,at 16:45:50(UT), August 28,2024, about 3.55 hours after the burst. The weather was not good.
After stacking 20*100 seconds, no any new sources were detected in our stacked image within the X-ray afterglow error circles (Page et al. GCN 37334) down to a limit magnitude of 18.5 mag in R band at the mid-time of 3.83 hours post the burst, calibrated to several nearby USNO B1.0 stars.
We acknowledge the excellent support from observation assistant Yangtong Zheng and Winlong Dong.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37347
SUBJECT: GRB 240828B: SVOM/C-GFT optical upper limit
DATE: 24/08/30 02:28:00 GMT
FROM: Chao Wu at NAOC <cwu(a)nao.cas.cn>
SVOM/C-GFT team: Chao WU (NAOC), Zhe Kang (CHO),Liping Xin(NAOC), Xuhui Han(NAOC),Pinpin Zhang (NAOC),Xiaomeng Lu (NAOC), Zhenwei Li (CHO),You Lv (CHO),Ruosong Zhang (NAOC),Yujie Xiao(NAOC)
SVOM JSWG: Jian-Yan Wei (NAOC, China), Bertrand Cordier (CEA, F), Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP, CN), Stephane Basa (LAM, F), Jean-Luc Atté…
[View More]ia (IRAP, F), Arnaud Claret (CEA, F), Zi-Gao Dai (USTC, CN), Frederic Daigne (IAP, F), Jin-Song Deng (NAOC, CN), Andrea Goldwurm (APC, F), Diego Götz (CEA, F), Xu-Hui Han (NAOC, CN), Cyril Lachaud (APC, F), En-Wei Liang (GXU, CN), Yu-Lei Qiu (NAOC, CN), Susanna Vergani (Obs.Paris, F), Jing Wang (NAOC, CN), Chao Wu(NAOC, CN), Li-Ping Xin (NAOC,CN), Bing Zhang (UNLV, CN)
We observed the field of the SVOM/ECLAIRs-detected burst GRB 240828B (Le Provost et al., GCN 37318) starting at 16:14:47 UT, August 28, 2024, ~3.06 hr after the burst trigger with C-GFT (Chinese Ground Follow-up Telescope in SVOM mission) in System Test Mode (STM). C-GFT is located at Jilin (long.=126.33 deg, lat.= 43.8243778 deg), Changchun Observatory, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS. It has FOV of 1.28 deg x 1.28 deg with a 4k*4k CMOS detector mounted on the primary focus of 1.2-meter-aperure telescope.
A series of g ,r, and i band images were obtained. We obtained stacked images of g: 249x10s, r: 232x 10s and i: 244x10s. No optical counterpart candidate was detected within the X-ray afterglow error
circles (Page et al. GCN 37334) down to the limiting magnitude of mag_g=19.7, mag_r=19.2, and
mag_i=20.1 . It is consistent with the results reported by Zheng et al.(GCN 37345) and Moskvitin et al. (GCN 37346).
The photometry was calibrated with nearby Pan-STARRS 1 catalogs.
We thank the observation assistant Chunlei Guo at Jilin observatory for their excellent support.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37346
SUBJECT: GRB 240828B: SAO RAS optical upper limit
DATE: 24/08/30 00:10:12 GMT
FROM: Moskvitin Alexander at SAO RAS <mosk(a)sao.ru>
A. S. Moskvitin and O. I. Spiridonova (SAO RAS)
report on behalf of the GRB follow-up team.
We observed the field of GRB 240828B (Le Provost et al., GCN 37318)
with the SAO RAS 1-meter telescope Zeiss-1000 equipped with
the CCD-photometer on August 29, 19:36:46 -- 20:00:01 UT
(t_mid - T0 = 30.594 hours = 1.2748 days)…
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in Rc band with a total exposure of 1040 seconds.
Within the XRT error circle (Page et al., GCN 37334) we didn't detect
any source down to a limiting magnitude of R_lim = 21.0 as well as
KAIT team (Zheng et al., GCN 37345).
The field was calibrated against nearby SDSS stars (magnitudes
converted with Lupton 2005 equations) and not corrected for the Galaxy
extinction.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37345
SUBJECT: GRB 240828B: KAIT optical upper limit
DATE: 24/08/29 23:40:38 GMT
FROM: Weikang Zheng at UC Berkeley <weikang(a)berkeley.edu>
WeiKang Zheng and Alexei V. Filippenko (UCB),
SVOM JSWG: Jian-Yan Wei (NAOC, China), Bertrand Cordier (CEA, F),
Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP, CN), Stephane Basa (LAM, F), Jean-Luc Attéia
(IRAP, F), Arnaud Claret (CEA, F), Zi-Gao Dai (USTC, CN), Frederic Daigne
(IAP, F), Jin-Song Deng (NAOC, CN), Andrea Goldwurm (…
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Diego Götz (CEA, F), Xu-Hui Han (NAOC, CN), Cyril Lachaud (APC, F),
En-Wei Liang (GXU, CN), Yu-Lei Qiu (NAOC, CN), Susanna Vergani
(Obs. Paris, F), Jing Wang (NAOC, CN), Chao Wu (NAOC, CN), Li-Ping Xin
(NAOC, CN), Bing Zhang (UNLV, CN)
report on behalf of the KAIT GRB team:
The 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), located at
Lick Observatory, responded to GRB 240828B from the SVOM/ECLAIRs
(Le Provost et al., GCN 37318) by observing the Swift/XRT afterglow
position (Page et al., GCN 37334) starting at 11:05 UT, Aug 29th,
~21.88 hours after the trigger. A set of of 48x60s clear (roughly R)
filter images were obtained. Preliminary analysis do not reveal any
new optical counterpart candidate within the X-ray afterglow error
circles (Page et al., GCN 37334), neither in single image, nor in
the co-add images. We estimate the limiting magnitude of our coadd
image to be ~20.5 mag.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37344
SUBJECT: GRB 240828A: SAO RAS optical observations
DATE: 24/08/29 21:25:40 GMT
FROM: Moskvitin Alexander at SAO RAS <mosk(a)sao.ru>
A. S. Moskvitin and O. I. Spiridonova (SAO RAS)
report on behalf of the GRB follow-up team.
We observed the field of GRB 240828A (Fermi GBM team, GCN 37317;
Srijan et al., GCN 37328; Gupta and Di Lalla, GCN 37331;
Beardmore et al., GCN 37337; Dalessi and Meegan GCN 37341)
with the SAO RAS 1-meter telescope Zeiss-…
[View More]1000 equipped with
the CCD-photometer. We obtained 3 x 300 sec frames in each of BVRcIc
filters on August 29.
The OT (Zheng and Filippenko; GCN 37339) is clearly detected in our
images. The results are as follows.
Start -- Stop, UT t_mid - T0, d filter mag +/- err
18:14:38 -- 18:33:37 1.14515 B 20.54 +/- 0.05
18:34:12 -- 18:50:59 1.15798 V 20.16 +/- 0.05
17:38:50 -- 17:56:05 1.11969 Rc 19.73 +/- 0.03
17:56:52 -- 18:13:53 1.13213 Ic 19.36 +/- 0.07
Magnitudes were calibrated against nearby SDSS stars (converted with
Lupton 2005 equations) and not corrected for the MW extinction.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37341
SUBJECT: GRB 240828A: Fermi GBM Observation
DATE: 24/08/29 19:24:23 GMT
FROM: Sarah Dalessi at UAH <sd0104(a)uah.edu>
S. Dalessi (UAH) and C. Meegan (UAH) report on behalf of
the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"At 14:55:06.83 UT on 28 August 2024, the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)
triggered and located GRB 240828A (trigger 746549711/240828622).
which was also detected by AstroSat (S. Srijan et al. 2024, GCN 37328), Fermi-LAT (R. …
[View More]Gupta et al. 2024, GCN 37331), Swift-XRT (A.P. Beardmore et al. 2024, GCN 37337), and KAIT (W. Zheng et al. 2024 37339)
The Fermi GBM on-ground location is consistent with the AstroSat, Fermi-LAT, Swift-XRT, and KAIT positions.
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is 97 degrees.
The GBM light curve multiple peaks with a duration (T90)
of about 41.2 s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum
from T0+0.002 to T0+44.225 s is best fit by
a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff.
The power law index is -0.96 +/- 0.01 and the cutoff energy,
parameterized as Epeak, is 850 +/- 30 keV.
The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(8.05 +/- 0.07)E-05 erg/cm^2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured
starting from T0+38.8 s in the 10-1000 keV band is 18.6 +/- 0.4 ph/s/cm^2.
A Band function fits the spectrum equally well
with Epeak= 820 +/- 30 keV, alpha = -0.96 +/- 0.01 and beta = -2.9 +/- 0.2.
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: 37340
SUBJECT: GRB 240629A: First GRB Detected by BurstCube
DATE: 24/08/29 17:00:16 GMT
FROM: Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin(a)nasa.gov>
I. Martinez-Castellanos (GSFC/UMD/CRESST), A. Myers (GSFC/ORAU), D. Violette (GSFC/ORAU), L. Angellini (GSFC), J. Asercion (GSFC/ADNET), M. S. Briggs (UAH), R. Caputo (GSFC), J. Cox (GSFC), G. de Nolfo (GSFC), K. Gasaway (GSFC), S. Griffin (UWM), D. Hartmann (Clemson), B. A. Hristov (UAH), A. Joens (…
[View More]Berkeley), P. Nuessle (GSFC/GWU), J. S. Perkins (GSFC), J. Racusin (GSFC), S. Semper (GSFC), P. Shawhan (UMD), J. Smith (UAH), L. Tian (GSFC) on behalf of the BurstCube Team:
At approximately 16:53 UTC on 29 June 2024, BurstCube detected GRB 240629A, also seen by Fermi-GBM (GCN 36786) and SVOM (GCN 36805). The spacecraft reported time was 16:53:28 UTC, with an approximate offset of -25 s from the GBM trigger time, which we attribute to BurstCube’s onboard clock uncertainty at the time of this data collection.
This is the first GRB detected by BurstCube in a ground analysis of downlinked commissioning data.
We analyzed our continuous binned data (16 energy channels, 256 ms time resolution) in the energy band of ~130-1000 keV, seeing a signal (total Test Statistic of 160.87) in excess of background in a 4.096 s window search in 3 detectors (Cs0, Cs1, Cs3). The 4 detector significances are 6.85, 9.61, 2.01, 4.19 sigma above background for Cs0, Cs1, Cs2, Cs3, respectively.
The duration is T90 = 7.2 [-1.0, +1.8] seconds, with a single-pulse light curve consistent with that seen by Fermi-GBM. Localization and spectral analysis are ongoing.
The BurstCube team continues to search our data for astronomical transients seen in at least two detectors, including independent events and those seen by other instruments.
BurstCube is a 6U CubeSat built, managed, and operated by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and funded by NASA/APRA. The BurstCube instrument is comprised of 4 CsI(Tl) scintillator detectors read out by arrays of SiPMs. It was launched on March 21, 2024 on the NASA CRS-30 to the ISS, and deployed on April 18, 2024.
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