TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37081
SUBJECT: EP240804a (GRB 240804B): NOT optical observations
DATE: 24/08/06 19:49:32 GMT
FROM: Daniele B. Malesani at IMAPP / Radboud University <d.malesani(a)astro.ru.nl>
D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud Univ.), J. P. U. Fynbo (DAWN/NBI), J. Verwohlt (DARK/NBI), K. Valeckas (DAWN/NBI), T. Bach Johannessen (Aarhus Univ.), J. K. Mogensen (Aarhus Univ.), D. Xu (NAOC), S. Grund (NOT) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
We observed the optical counterpart (An et al., GCN 37035; Poidevin et al., GCN 37038; Bochenek et al., GCN 37039; Li et al., GCN 37044) of the X-ray transient EP240804a (Wang et al., GCN 37034), identified with GRB 240804B (Frederiks et al., GCN 37071). using the Nordic Optical Telescope equipped with the ALFOSC imager. A set of three 300-s r-band observations were carried out at large airmass (average 2.75), with mid time Aug 6.081 UT (28.34 hr after the EP trigger).
The optical counterpart is well detected in the stack of our data, for which we measure r = 21.72 +- 0.08 (AB), calibrated against nearby stars from the SkyMapper catalog.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37080
SUBJECT: EP240806a: LCOGT optical counterpart detection
DATE: 24/08/06 19:14:23 GMT
FROM: Ismael Perez-Fournon at Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias <ipf(a)iac.es>
I. Pérez-Fournon, F. Poidevin, D. S. Aguado, J. A. Acosta-Pulido, A. López-Oramas, D. Nespral (IAC and ULL), and F. Acero (CEA Saclay and IAC)
We report on optical follow-up observations of the Einstein Probe (EP) fast X-ray transient EP240806a, detected by the EP Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT, Wu et al., GCN 3763) and by the EP Follow-up X-ray Telescope (FXT, Wang et al., GCN 37069), using one of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT) 1-m telescopes located at the McDonald Observatory (Texas) LCOGT node, with a single 300 sec exposure in the SDSS r filter. The observation started at 10:40:19 UT on 2024-08-06, i.e. 5.87 hr after the EP trigger. An uncatalogued source is detected at about 1.2 arcsec from the FXT position at the coordinates
RA (J2000) = 00:45:56.679
Dec (J2000)= +05:05:39.64
with an uncertainty of ~ 0.4 arcsec, after astrometric calibration using Gaia DR3 stars, at r = 21.89 +/- 0.15 mag (AB), calibrated with Pan-STARRS stars in the field and not corrected for Galactic extinction. The position and r-band magnitude are consistent with the reports of Li et al. (GCN 37064) and Izzo and Malesani (GCN 37065), respectively.
This work makes use of observations from the Las Cumbres Observatory global telescope network (program IAC2024B-004).
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37079
SUBJECT: Konus-Wind detection of GRB 240802A (EP240802a)
DATE: 24/08/06 17:04:23 GMT
FROM: Dmitry Frederiks at Ioffe Institute <fred(a)mail.ioffe.ru>
D. Frederiks, A.Lysenko, A. Ridnaia, D. Svinkin,
A. Tsvetkova, M. Ulanov, and T. Cline,
on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report:
The long GRB 240802A (AstroSat CZTI detection: Waratkar et al., GCN 37018;
SVOM/GRM observation: Wang et al., GCN 37022;
IPN triangulation: Svinkin et al., GCN 37026; Kozyrev et al., GCN 37078),
associated with the fast X-ray transient EP240802a (Wang et al., GCN 37019;
Aryan et al., GCN 37021; Svinkin et al., GCN 37026; Kozyrev et al., GCN 37078),
triggered Konus-Wind (KW) at T0=38048.482 s UT (10:34:08.482).
The burst light curve shows a multi-peaked emission pulse,
which starts at ~T0-13 s and has the total duration of ~47 s.
Two main peaks in the light curve are located around ~T0 and ~T0+29 s,
respectively.
The Konus-Wind light curve of this GRB is available at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB240802_T38048/
As observed by Konus-Wind, the burst had the total fluence
of 1.63(-0.14,+0.15)x10^-5 erg/cm^2 and a 2.944-s peak energy flux,
measured from T0+0.032 s, of 8.21(-2.63,+3.09)x10^-6 erg/cm^2/s
(both in the 20 keV - 10 MeV energy range).
Due to telemetry errors in the KW triggered-mode spectra, the spectral analysis
was performed using the 3-channel waiting-mode count rates.
Modeling the time-integrated spectrum (measured from T0-13.161 s to T0+33.943 s)
by a power law with exponential cutoff (CPL) function dN/dE ~ (E^alpha)*exp(-E*(2+alpha)/Ep)
yields alpha = -1.38(-0.11, + 0.12) and Ep = 226(-36,+51) keV.
A CPL fit to the spectrum near the peak count rate (measured from T0-1.385 s to T0+1.559 s)
results in alpha = -1.02(-0.15,+0.17) and Ep = 273(-42,+55) keV.
All the quoted errors are estimated at the 68% confidence level.
All the presented results are preliminary.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37078
SUBJECT: Improved IPN triangulation of GRB 240802A / EP 240802a
DATE: 24/08/06 16:49:43 GMT
FROM: Anna Ridnaia at Ioffe Institute <ridnaia(a)mail.ioffe.ru>
A.S. Kozyrev, D.V. Golovin, M.L. Litvak, I.G. Mitrofanov, and A.B. Sanin
on behalf of the HEND/Mars Odyssey team,
D. Svinkin, D. Frederiks, A. Ridnaia, A. Lysenko,
and T. Cline on behalf of the Konus-Wind team,
E. Burns, on behalf of the IPN,
E. Bozzo and C. Ferrigno, on behalf of the INTEGRAL SPI-ACS GRB team,
G. Waratkar, V. Jethwani, J.Joshi, V. Bhalerao, D. Bhattacharya, and S. Vadawale,
on behalf of the Astrosat-CZTI team,
and
W. Boynton, C. Fellows, K. Harshman, H. Enos, R. Starr,
and A.S. Gardner on on behalf of the GRS-Odyssey GRB team,
report:
Using the Mars-Odyssey (HEND) data we have improved
the previous IPN error box (Svinkin et al., GCN 37026).
The coordinates of the updated 3 sigma error box are:
---------------------------------------------
RA(2000), deg Dec(2000), deg
---------------------------------------------
Center:
287.477 (19h 09m 54s) -1.718 ( -1d 43' 05")
Corners:
285.131 (19h 00m 31s) +2.050 ( +2d 03' 01")
285.257 (19h 01m 02s) +2.088 ( +2d 05' 15")
289.523 (19h 18m 05s) -5.648 ( -5d 38' 51")
289.393 (19h 17m 34s) -5.668 ( -5d 40' 03")
---------------------------------------------
The error box area is 1.11 sq. deg, and its maximum
dimension is 8.9 deg (the minimum one is 7.6 arcmin).
The Sun distance was 146 deg.
The IPN localization may be further improved.
The EP240802a localization is inside the improved box.
Updated triangulation map and HEALPix FITS files are posted at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB240802_T38048/IPN/
The HEALPix triangulation map is the multi-order HEALPix in units of probability density.
The Konus-Wind time history and spectrum will be given
in a forthcoming GCN Circular.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37077
SUBJECT: Konus-Wind detection of GRB 240805A
DATE: 24/08/06 15:53:16 GMT
FROM: Anna Ridnaia at Ioffe Institute <ridnaia(a)mail.ioffe.ru>
A. Ridnaia, D. Frederiks, A. Lysenko, D. Svinkin,
A. Tsvetkova, M. Ulanov, and T. Cline,
on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report:
The long-duration GRB 240805A
(Fermi-GBM observation: The Fermi GBM team, GCN 27031; Godwin et al., GCN 37075;
Swift-BAT detection: Dichiara et al., GCN 37032;
INTEGRAL IBIS/ISGRI detection: Mereghetti et al., GCN 37037; Götz et al., GCN 37041;
Fermi-LAT detection: Gupta et al., GCN 37042;
SVOM/GRM observation: Wang et al., GCN 37054)
triggered Konus-Wind at T0=7342.029 s UT (02:02:22.029).
The burst light curve shows a multipeaked structure
which starts at ~T0-2.3 s and has a total duration of ~15.6 s.
The emission is seen up to ~4 MeV.
The Konus-Wind light curve of this GRB is available at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB240805_T07342/
As observed by Konus-Wind, the burst
had a fluence of 3.43(-0.31,+0.35)x10^-5 erg/cm2,
and a 64-ms peak flux, measured from T0+3.680 s,
of 6.61(-1.44,+1.48)x10^-6 erg/cm2/s
(both in the 20 keV - 10 MeV energy range).
The time-averaged spectrum of the burst
(measured from T0 to T0+15.360 s)
is best fit in the 20 keV - 10 MeV range
by the GRB (Band) model with the following parameters:
the low-energy photon index alpha = -0.46(-0.11,+0.13),
the high energy photon index beta = -2.76(-0.43,+0.26),
the peak energy Ep = 272(-22,+22) keV
(chi2 = 81/80 dof).
The spectrum near the maximum count rate
(measured from T0+0.256 to T0+7.168 s)
is best fit in the 20 keV - 10 MeV range
by the GRB (Band) model with the following parameters:
the low-energy photon index alpha = -0.51(-0.12,+0.14),
the high energy photon index beta = -2.78(-0.61,+0.29),
the peak energy Ep = 279(-26,+27) keV
(chi2 = 70/71 dof).
All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level.
All the quoted values are preliminary.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37076
SUBJECT: GRB 240805B Bassano Bresciano Observatory upper limit
DATE: 24/08/06 15:20:26 GMT
FROM: Ulisse Quadri at Bassano Bresciano Observatory <osservatoriobassano(a)gmail.com>
U.Quadri, L.Strabla and P.Madurini (Bassano Bresciano Astronomical Observatory),
Members of:
AAVSO - American Association of Variable Star Observers.
UAI - Unione Astrofili Italiani/GRB section.
GAC - Gruppo Astrofili Cremonesi.
In a large collaboration with:
M.G. Dainotti (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan),
Y. Niino (Tokyo University, Institute of Astronomy),
K. Kalinowski (Aarhus University, Department of Physics and Astronomy),
B. De Simone (Universita' degli Studi Di Salerno)
report:
We imaged the field of GRB 240805B detected by SWIFT (trigger num. 1246989)
with the robotic telescope of (IAU station 565) Bassano Bresciano Observatory, Italy.
The observations started 6.72 hour after the GRB trigger, At the end of twilight
with our Newton telescope D=450 mm F/D=4.5.
Weather conditions were good.
We co-added 2 series of 50 exposures of 20 sec each.
Start T0+ End T0+ Vlim
6.72 hour 7.02 hour 21.2
7.02 hour 7.35 hour 21.2
We did not found any optical counterpart in the error box of the XRTcandidate:
M. A. Williams et al., GCN 37043; Z.P. Zhu et al., GCN 37050; V. Lipunov et al., GCN 37051;
R. Strausbaugh et al., GCN 37052; A. Moskvitin et al., GCN 37055; Z. Maksut et al., GCN 37060;
Guowang Du et al., GCN 37062; N. Pankov et al., GCN 37072.
Magnitudes were estimated with the pan-STARRS cat.
and are derived using Lupton (2005) equations.
Not corrected for galactic dust extinction.
Reference:
http://www.osservatoriobassano.org/GRB.asp
The
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37075
SUBJECT: GRB240805A: Fermi GBM Observation
DATE: 24/08/06 15:04:23 GMT
FROM: Jacob Smith at Fermi-GBM Team <jrs0118(a)uah.edu>
M. Godwin (UAH), J. Smith (UAH), and C. Meegan (UAH) report on behalf of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
At 02:02:20.31 UT on 05 August 2024, the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) triggered and located GRB 240805A (trigger 744516145/240805085),which was also detected by SVOM/GRM (SVOM/GRM team, 2024, GCN 37054), Fermi-LAT (R. Gupta et al. 2024, GCN 37042), INTEGRAL IBAS (S.Mereghetti et al. 2024, GCN 37037), and Swift-BAT (S. Dichiara et al. 2024, GCN 37032). The Final Real-time Localization (Fermi GBM Team 2024, GCN 37031) is consistent with the Fermi-LAT, Integral, and Swift positions.
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is 59 degrees.
The GBM light curve has many short peaks with a duration (T90) of about 10.8 s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum from T0-3.6 to T0+16.9 s is best fit by a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -0.67 +/- 0.02 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 330 +/- 8 keV.
The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (2.91 +/- 0.04)E-05 erg/cm^2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured starting from T0+5.8 s in the 10-1000 keV band is 14.3 +/- 0.3 ph/s/cm^2.
A Band function fits the spectrum equally well with Epeak= 310 +/- 10 keV, alpha = -0.65 +/- 0.02 and beta = -2.9 +/- 0.3.
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: 37074
SUBJECT: GRB 240805B: JinShan optical afterglow detection
DATE: 24/08/06 15:03:47 GMT
FROM: Dong Xu at NAOC/CAS <dxu(a)nao.cas.cn>
Z.P. Zhu, X. Liu, J. An, S.Y. Fu, S.Q. Jiang, L.B. He, D. Xu (NAOC), J.Z. Liu (XAO) report on behalf of a large collaboration:
We reported JinShan optical upper limits (GCN 37050) at the Swift/XRT position of GRB 240805B (Williams et al., GCN 37043).
Later on, the Enhanced Swift-XRT position was available (Goad et al., GCN 37053), which has a quite positional shift compared to the early position (Williams et al., GCN 37043).
Checking the Enhanced Swift-XRT position in the JinShan images, we find the optical afterglow (e.g., Moskvitin et al., GCN 37055; Du et al., GCN 37062) is detected in the r-/i-/z- bands. Thus, the updated preliminary results are as follows:
Telescope Tmid-T0/hr Filter Exptime Mag(AB) MagErr
50D 1.683 g 20x180s >21.5 -
100C 0.582 r 5x200s 20.03 0.06
100C 0.868 i 5x200s 18.79 0.02
100C 1.318 z 7x300s 18.79 0.02
We acknowledge the excellent support from S.W. Luo, M.M. Yang, Z.K. Feng, Q.C. Zhao and L.F. Huo for enabling these observations.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 37073
SUBJECT: GRB 240804B/EP240804a: Correction to the GRB name in GCN 37071
DATE: 24/08/06 14:30:48 GMT
FROM: Dmitry Frederiks at Ioffe Institute <fred(a)mail.ioffe.ru>
Dmitry Frederiks report on behalf of the Konus-Wind team:
"The Konus-Wind GRB at 21:36:48 UT on 8 August 2024 (a counterpart of EP240804a)
was incorrectly named GRB 240804A (GCN 37071). This burst should be named GRB 240804B.
The Konus-Wind light curve of this GRB is available at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB240804B/
and the plot the rest-frame hardness-intensity correlations
can be found at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB240804B/GRB240804B_rest_frame.pdf
We apologize for any confusion caused."
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