TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38880
SUBJECT: IPN triangulation of GRB 250107D (short/hard)
DATE: 25/01/09 22:06:45 GMT
FROM: Dmitry Svinkin at Ioffe Institute <svinkin(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. Lysenko, A. Ridnaia,
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,
S. Barthelmy, J. Cummings, H. Krimm, D. Palmer, and A. Tohuvavohu
on behalf of the Swift-BAT 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:
The short-duration GRB 250107D
was detected by Konus-Wind, INTEGRAL (SPI-ACS),
Swift (BAT), and Mars-Odyssey(HEND), at about 19406 s UT (05:23:26).
The burst was outside the coded field of view of the BAT.
We have triangulated it to a preliminary, 3 sigma error box
whose coordinates are:
---------------------------------------------
RA(2000), deg Dec(2000), deg
---------------------------------------------
Center:
259.300 (17h 17m 12s) -29.710 (-29d 42' 37")
Corners:
259.267 (17h 17m 04s) -28.346 (-28d 20' 46")
259.147 (17h 16m 35s) -30.541 (-30d 32' 29")
259.382 (17h 17m 32s) -30.988 (-30d 59' 15")
259.469 (17h 17m 52s) -28.855 (-28d 51' 18")
---------------------------------------------
The error box area is 1635 sq. arcmin, and its maximum
dimension is 2.6 deg (the minimum one is 12.6 arcmin).
The Sun distance was 27 deg.
This localization may be improved.
A triangulation map and HEALPix FITS file are posted at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB250107_T19411/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: 38879
SUBJECT: IPN triangulation of GRB 250107C
DATE: 25/01/09 22:04:46 GMT
FROM: Dmitry Svinkin at Ioffe Institute <svinkin(a)mail.ioffe.ru>
D. Svinkin, D. Frederiks, A. Lysenko, A. Ridnaia,
and T. Cline on behalf of the Konus-Wind team,
Y. Zhang, C. Wang, S. Xiong, J. Wei, and B. Cordier
on behalf of the SVOM-GRM team,
A. Goldstein, M. S. Briggs, C. Wilson-Hodge,
and E. Burns on behalf of the Fermi GBM team,
S. Barthelmy, J. Cummings, H. Krimm, D. Palmer, and A. Tohuvavohu
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team, report:
The long-duration GRB 250107C
(SVOM-GRM and GECAM-B detections: Xue et al., GCN 38870)
was detected by Konus-Wind, SVOM (GRM), and GECAM-B
at about 67936 s UT (18:52:16).
We have triangulated it to a preliminary, 3 sigma error box
whose area is 22.6 sq. deg, and its maximum
dimension is 22.8 deg (the minimum one is 1.0 deg).
The Sun distance was 73 deg.
This localization may be improved.
A triangulation map and HEALPix FITS file are posted at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB250107_T67934/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: 38878
SUBJECT: EP250108a: Liverpool Telescope likely optical counterpart
DATE: 25/01/09 21:42:48 GMT
FROM: Rob Eyles-Ferris at U of Leicester <raje1(a)leicester.ac.uk>
R. Eyles-Ferris (U of Leicester) reports:
We observed the field of the X-ray transient EP250108a (Li et al., GCN 38861) using the IO:O on the 2m Liverpool Telescope. We obtained 6x200s exposures in the SDSS g’ filter starting at 2025-01-09 19:59:08 UT, approximately 31.5 hours after the trigger.
We performed image subtraction on the stacked image using a reference Pan-STARRS image and identify a source of g’ = 20.79+/-0.05 with photometry calibrated to Pan-STARRS and not corrected for Galactic extinction. The source is located at RA, Dec = 55.61823, -22.50587 deg, which is equivalent to:
RA (J2000) : 03:42:28.38
Dec (J2000): -22:30:21.1
This source is within the error region of the Einstein Probe detection and is the only source within it in the subtracted image. It is also visible in the individual frames. There is a catalogued DES DR1/2 source with a measured g’ band magnitude of 23.3 and a photometric redshift of 0.882+/-0.379 consistent with our measured position. We suggest this is the host galaxy. Further observations are planned.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38877
SUBJECT: GRB 250108B: Gemini-North likely redshift z = 2.197
DATE: 25/01/09 17:37:07 GMT
FROM: Jillian Rastinejad at Northwestern Univ. <jillianrastinejad2024(a)u.northwestern.edu>
Daniele B. Malesani (DAWN/ NBI and Radboud), Jillian C. Rastinejad (Northwestern), Andrew J. Levan (Radboud), Wen-fai Fong, Charlie Kilpatrick (Northwestern), Gavin P. Lamb (LJMU), and Nial R. Tanvir (Leicester) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
Following the detection of the optical afterglow (Rastinejad et al., GCN 38855) of GRB 250108B (Klinger et al., GCN 38847), we obtained optical spectroscopy using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS-N) mounted on Gemini-North, under Program GN-2024B-Q-107 (P.I. Rastinejad). The mean time of the observation was 15:12 UT on 2025 Jan 8 (4.81 hr post-burst). The total exposure time was 4x400 s using the R400 grating, which covers the wavelength range 4650-9450 AA.
Given the faintness of the target (r ~ 23.4; Rastinejad et al., GCN 38855), only a weak trace is detected, with most of the signal apparent at the red end of the spectrum. A few absorption features are weakly detected. A possible redshift solution, based on the detection of Mg I 2852, Mg II 2796,2803, Fe II 2600, and Fe II 2586, yields z = 2.197, which we suggest to be the redshift of GRB 250108B.
The slit was aligned in order to cover also the nearby galaxy (Rastinejad et al., GCN 38855) at coordinates RA = 13:25:18.72, Dec = +25:37:12.7, with photometric redshift z = 0.2-0.3, resulting in a bright trace. We detect Halpha, [N II], and [S II] at z = 0.302, consistent with the Legacy Survey photometric redshift of z = 0.29 +/- 0.04 (Zhou et al., 2021). Our observations indicate that this object is unlikely to be physically connected to the GRB.
We thank Jen Miller, Leila Alamos, Brian Lemaux and additional Gemini staff for excellent support in the rapid planning and execution of these observations.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38876
SUBJECT: GRB 250108B: Swift-BAT refined analysis
DATE: 25/01/09 16:42:39 GMT
FROM: Rahul Gupta at NASA GSFC <rahul.gupta(a)nasa.gov>
S. Laha (GSFC/UMBC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
R. Gupta (GSFC), N. J. Klingler (GSFC/UMBC/CRESSTII),
H. A. Krimm (NSF), A. Y. Lien (U Tampa),
C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), M. J. Moss (GSFC),
D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. Parsotan (GSFC),
D. Sadaula (GSFC/UMBC), T. Sakamoto (AGU)
(i.e. the Swift-BAT team):
Using the data set from T-239 to T+792 sec from the recent telemetry downlink,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 250108B (trigger #1280056)
(Klinger et al., GCN Circ. 38847). The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 201.312, 25.622 deg which is
RA(J2000) = 13h 25m 14.8s
Dec(J2000) = +25d 37' 19.4"
with an uncertainty of 1.8 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 89%.
The mask-weighted light curve exhibits multi-peaked structures, including evidence of precursor emission prior to the main burst. T90 (15-350 keV) is 229.66 +- 43.30 sec (estimated error including systematics).
The time-averaged spectrum from T-63.14 to T+218.21 sec is best fit by a simple
power-law model. The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
1.63 +- 0.19. The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 1.7 +- 0.2 x 10^-06 erg/cm2.
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+1.56 sec in the 15-150 keV band
is 0.6 +- 0.2 ph/cm2/sec. All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence
level.
The results of the batgrbproduct analysis are available at
https://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/results/batgrbcat/BAT_refined_circular/1280056
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38875
SUBJECT: GRB 250108B: 1.3m DFOT upper limit
DATE: 25/01/09 16:23:09 GMT
FROM: Amit Kumar Ror at ARIES <mitturor77894(a)gmail.com>
Amit K. Ror, Anshika Gupta, RKS Yadav, Shashi B. Pandey, Kuntal Mishra
(ARIES) report:
We observed the field of GRB 250108B detected by Swift (Swift Observatory
Team, Klingler et al. 2025, GCN 38847) with the 1.3m Devasthal Fast Optical
Telescope (DFOT), located at the Devasthal Observatory of the Aryabhatta
Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), India. The
observations were started on 2025-01-08 at 21:58:57 UT, i.e., ~ 0.48 days
after the Swift-BAT trigger. We have taken multiple frames with an exposure
time of 300s in the R filter. We stacked the images after the alignment. We
could not detect the optical emission reported by Rastinejad et al. (2025,
GCN 38855) in our stacked image within the error box enhanced Swift-XRT
position (Osborne et al. 2025, GCN 38848). We obtain the following 3-sigma
upper limit in the stacked image:
Date Start_UT T_start-T0 (days) Filter Exp time (s) Magnitude
=========================================================
2025-01-08 21:58:57 ~ 0.48 R 300s*12 >21.8
The non-detection of the burst is consistent with the upper limits reported
by Breeveld et al. 2025, GCN 38850 and Lipunov et al. 2025, GCN 38858.
The magnitude is not corrected for the Galactic extinction in the direction
of the burst. Photometric calibration is performed using the standard stars
from the USNO-B1.0 catalogue. This circular may be cited.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38874
SUBJECT: GRB 250108B: REM optical/NIR upper limits
DATE: 25/01/09 16:12:35 GMT
FROM: Riccardo Brivio at INAF-OAB <riccardo.brivio(a)inaf.it>
R. Brivio, M. Ferro, P. D’Avanzo, S. Covino, D. Fugazza (INAF-OAB) report on behalf of the REM team:
We observed the field of GRB 250108B detected by Swift (Klingler et al., GCN 38847) with the REM 60cm robotic telescope located at the ESO observatory of La Silla (Chile). The observations were carried in the g, r, i, z, J, H, K bands, starting on 2025 January 09 at 07:02:48 UT (i.e. 21.07 hours after the Swift trigger), and lasting for about 1 hour.
Within the XRT-enhanced position (Osborne et al., GCN 38848), from preliminary photometry we do not detect any optical or NIR counterpart consistent with the candidate optical afterglow (Rastinejad et al., GCN 38855), down to the following 3sigma magnitude upper limits:
r > 20.1 (AB; calibrated against the PanSTARRS catalogue)
at a mid-time of t - t0 = 21.2 hr after the trigger,
H > 17.0 (Vega; calibrated against the 2MASS catalogue)
at a mid-time of t - t0 = 21.1 hr after the trigger.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38872
SUBJECT: EP250109a: SVOM/VT optical candidate
DATE: 25/01/09 13:56:18 GMT
FROM: Liping Xin at NAOC, SVOM <xlp(a)nao.cas.cn>
SVOM/VT commissioning team: Y. L. Qiu, H. L. Li, H. Sun, L. P. Xin, C. Wu, X. H. Han, J. Wang, W. J. Xie, H. B. Cai, Y. Xu, Y. J. Xiao, P. P. Zhang, J. S. Deng, L. Lan, X. M. Lu, R. S. Zhang, Z. H. Yao (NAOC), J. Zhang, L. J. Dan, G. Y. Zou, C. J. Wang, Y. F. Du, C. Huang (XIOPM)
SVOM JSWG: Jian-Yan Wei (NAOC), Bertrand Cordier (CEA), Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP), Stéphane Basa (LAM), Arnaud Claret (CEA), Zi-Gao Dai (USTC), Frédéric Daigne (IAP), Jin-Song Deng (NAOC), Olivier Godet (IRAP), Andrea Goldwurm (APC), Diego Götz (CEA), Xu-Hui Han (NAOC), Cyril Lachaud (APC), En-Wei Liang (GXU), Yu-Lei Qiu (NAOC), Susanna Vergani (Obs.Paris), Jing Wang (NAOC), Chao Wu (NAOC), Li-Ping Xin (NAOC), Shao-Lin Xiong (IHEP), Bing Zhang (UNLV)
report on behalf of the SVOM team:
The SVOM/VT conducted a ToO follow-up observations of EP250109a triggered by EP-WXT(Li et al., GCN 38864) in VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm) channel simultaneously, from 4.13 hours to 4.80 hours after the burst.
An uncatalogued source was detected within the errorbox of FXT (Li et al.,GCN 38864) in VT_R stacked image, compared to the Pan-STARRS catalog. This source is the only one source within the error box. The brightness of the source was estimated to be VT_R=22.34+/-0.15 in AB magnitude at the mid time of 4.47 hours post the burst, with a total exposure time of 38*100 seconds. The source was not detected in VT_B stacked image down to a 3 sigma upper limit of 23.6 mag with a total exposure time of 21*100 sec.
The source is located at RA, Dec = 88.80672, -12.49599 deg, which is equivalent to:
RA (J2000) : 05:55:13.61
Dec (J2000): -12:29:45.6
with an uncertainty of 0.5 arcsec.
We are waiting for more data to confirm the fading of the source.
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA, China), National Center for Space Studies (CNES, France) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, China), which is dedicated to observing gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena in the energetic universe. VT was jointly developed by Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), CAS and National astronomical observatories (NAOC),CAS.
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