TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38832
SUBJECT: GRB 250103B: REM optical/NIR upper limits
DATE: 25/01/06 15:59:56 GMT
FROM: Matteo Ferro at INAF-OAB <matteo.ferro(a)inaf.it>
M. Ferro, R. Brivio, P. D’Avanzo, S. Covino, D. Fugazza (INAF-OAB) report on behalf of the REM team:
We observed the field of GRB 250103B detected by Swift (Eyles-Ferris et al., GCN 38796), also detected by SVOM (Bouchet et al., GCN 38797) with the REM 60cm robotic telescope located at the ESO observatory of La …
[View More]Silla (Chile). The observations were carried in the g, r, i, z, J, H, K bands, starting on 2025 January 04 at 00:47:49 UT (i.e. 9.1 hours after the Swift trigger), and lasting for about 1 hour.
From preliminary photometry we do not detect any optical or NIR counterpart at the optical afterglow position (Qiu et al., GCN 38813; Habeeb et al., GCN 38820; Turpin et al., GCN 38822) down to the following 3sigma magnitude upper limits:
r > 20.4 (AB; calibrated against the SkyMapper catalogue)
at a mid-time of t - t0 = 9.5 hr after the trigger,
H > 17.3 (Vega; calibrated against the 2MASS catalogue)
at a mid-time of t - t0 = 9.4 hr after the trigger.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38831
SUBJECT: GRB 250101A: REM optical/NIR counterpart detection
DATE: 25/01/06 15:58:24 GMT
FROM: Matteo Ferro at INAF-OAB <matteo.ferro(a)inaf.it>
M. Ferro, R.Brivio, P. D’Avanzo, S. Covino, D. Fugazza (INAF-OAB) report on behalf of the REM team:
We observed the field of GRB 250101A, detected by Swift (Page et al., GCN 38752) with the REM 60cm robotic telescope located at the ESO observatory of La Silla (Chile). The observations were carried in …
[View More]the g, r, i, z, J, H, K bands, starting on 2025 January 02 at 00:47:33 UT (i.e. 11.4 hours after the Swift trigger), and lasting for about 1 hour.
From preliminary photometry we detect the counterpart in the optical and NIR images at the position of the optical afterglow (e.g., Page et al., GCN 38752; Li et al., GCN 38753; Mohan et al., GCN 38754; Zhu et al., GCN 38755; Wu et al., GCN 38758), in agreement with the rebrightening reported by Moskvitin et al., GCN 38765, with the following magnitudes:
r = 19.3 +- 0.1 (AB; calibrated against the PanSTARRS catalogue)
at a mid-time of t - t0 = 11.9 hr after the trigger,
H = 17.2 +- 0.2 (Vega; calibrated against the 2MASS catalogue)
at a mid-time of t - t0 = 11.9 hr after the trigger.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38830
SUBJECT: GRB 250106A: Swift-XRT observations
DATE: 25/01/06 14:45:52 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), M.G. Bernardini
(INAF-OAB), E. Ambrosi (INAF-IASFPA) , M. A. Williams (PSU), S.
Dichiara (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), A.P.
Beardmore (U. Leicester) and P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on
behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
Swift-XRT has …
[View More]performed follow-up observations of the
SVOM/ECLAIRs-detected burst GRB 250106A (Zhao et al., GCN Circ. 38826),
collecting 2.9 ks of Photon Counting (PC) mode data between T0+19.9 ks
and T0+27.1 ks.
Four uncatalogued X-ray sources have been detected, however none of
them is above the RASS limit or shows definitive signs of fading.
However, Source 2 was reported by Qiu et al. (GCN Circ. 38829) to be
consistent with the position of a SVOM/VT optical candiate. Details of
the Swift-XRT sources are given below:
Source 1:
RA (J2000.0): 117.2387 = 07:48:57.28
Dec (J2000.0): +63.8123 = +63:48:44.3
Error: 3.0 arcsec (radius, 90% conf. [Enhanced position])
Count-rate: 0.0209 +/- 0.0032 ct s^-1
Distance: 205 arcsec from SVOM/ECLAIRs position.
Flux: (5.99 +/- 0.91)e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (observed, 0.3-10 keV)
Source 2:
RA (J2000.0): 117.3686 = 07:49:28.47
Dec (J2000.0): +63.7079 = +63:42:28.6
Error: 5.9 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.)
Count-rate: (5.7 [+2.1, -1.7])e-3 ct s^-1
Distance: 411 arcsec from SVOM/ECLAIRs position.
Flux: (4.1 [+1.5, -1.2])e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (observed, 0.3-10 keV)
Source 3:
RA (J2000.0): 116.9049 = 07:47:37.18
Dec (J2000.0): +63.9115 = +63:54:41.5
Error: 6.5 arcsec (radius, 90% conf. [Enhanced position])
Count-rate: (4.5 [+1.9, -1.5])e-3 ct s^-1
Distance: 642 arcsec from SVOM/ECLAIRs position.
Flux: (3.1 [+1.3, -1.0])e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (observed, 0.3-10 keV)
Source 4:
RA (J2000.0): 117.2096 = 07:48:50.31
Dec (J2000.0): +63.8218 = +63:49:18.4
Error: 7.1 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.)
Count-rate: (2.4 [+1.4, -1.0])e-3 ct s^-1
Distance: 207 arcsec from SVOM/ECLAIRs position.
Flux: (7.3 [+4.2, -3.1])e-14 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (observed, 0.3-10 keV)
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis of the XRT observations,
including a position-specific upper limit calculator, are available at
https://www.swift.ac.uk/ToO_GRBs/00021753.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38829
SUBJECT: GRB 250106A: SVOM/VT optical candidate
DATE: 25/01/06 11:51:02 GMT
FROM: SVOM_group <svomgroup(a)bao.ac.cn>
SVOM/VT commissioning team: Y. L. Qiu, H. L. Li, C. Wu, D. H. Zhao, L. P. Xin, 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 …
[View More]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 observations of GRB 250106A (Zhao et al., GCN 38826) after the automatic slew of the platform. The observations were carried out in VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm) channel simultaneously.
In the stacked VT_R image with an exposure time of 14*100 sec, an uncatalogued source was detected in the errorbox of XRT source #2(P. A. Evans et al., GCN 38828), while no any new source was detected within the errorbox of XRT source #1, compared to Pan-STARRS catalog.
The brightness of the uncatalogued source was VT_R=22.5+/-0.3 mag in AB miniguide at the mid time of 0.965 hours after the burst.
The source was not detected in VT_B stacked image with a 3 sigma limit of 23.3 mag at the mid time of 0.966 hours after the burst.
The source is located at RA, Dec = 117.37078 63.70817 deg, which is equivalent to:
RA (J2000) : 07:49:28.99
Dec (J2000): +63:42:29.4
with an uncertainty of 0.5 arcsec.
More deep follow-ups are encouraged for the nature 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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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38828
SUBJECT: GRB 250106A: Swift ToO observations
DATE: 25/01/06 08:03:23 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
P. A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift team:
Swift has initiated a ToO observation of the SVOM/ECLAIRs GRB 250106A.
Automated analysis of the XRT data will be presented online at
https://www.swift.ac.uk/ToO_GRBs/00021753
Any uncatalogued X-ray sources detected in this analysis will be
reported …
[View More]on this website and via GCN COUNTERPART notices. These are
not necessarily related to the SVOM/ECLAIRs event. Any X-ray source
considered to be a probable afterglow candidate will be reported via a
GCN Circular after manual consideration.
Details of the XRT automated analysis methods are detailed in Evans et
al. (2007, A&A, 469, 379; 2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177 and 2014, ApJS, 210, 8).
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38828
SUBJECT: GRB 250106A: Swift ToO observations
DATE: 25/01/06 08:03:23 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
P. A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift team:
Swift has initiated a ToO observation of the SVOM/ECLAIRs GRB 250106A.
Automated analysis of the XRT data will be presented online at
https://www.swift.ac.uk/ToO_GRBs/00021753
Any uncatalogued X-ray sources detected in this analysis will be
reported …
[View More]on this website and via GCN COUNTERPART notices. These are
not necessarily related to the SVOM/ECLAIRs event. Any X-ray source
considered to be a probable afterglow candidate will be reported via a
GCN Circular after manual consideration.
Details of the XRT automated analysis methods are detailed in Evans et
al. (2007, A&A, 469, 379; 2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177 and 2014, ApJS, 210, 8).
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38827
SUBJECT: The EP-WXT trigger 01709129925 is likely a flaring star
DATE: 25/01/06 04:00:07 GMT
FROM: EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta(a)bao.ac.cn>
W. Chen (NAO, CAS) , Q. C. Shui (IHEP, CAS), H. He, S. K. Yang (WHU), C. C. Jin (NAO, CAS) report on behalf of the Einstein Probe team:
The EP-WXT trigger (ID 01709129925) on 2025-01-05 20:53:30 (UTC) is likely a stellar flare associated with a High Proper Motion Star 1RXS J060224.9-163451. The estimated …
[View More]flux of the flare is around 1 x 10^-10 erg/s/cm^2 in 0.5-4.0 keV, corresponding to an X-ray luminosity of around 2 x 10^31 erg/s.
Launched on January 9, 2024, EP is a space X-ray observatory to monitor the soft X-ray sky with onboard X-ray follow-up capability (Yuan et al. 2022, Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics).
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38826
SUBJECT: GRB 250106A: SVOM detection of a long burst
DATE: 25/01/06 03:58:22 GMT
FROM: SVOM_group <svomgroup(a)bao.ac.cn>
D.-H. ZHAO, C. WU, W.-J. XIE (NAOC, CAS), D. Turpin (CEA), S. Guillot (IRAP), D. Götz (CEA), C-W. Wang (IHEP) report on behalf of the SVOM team.
The SVOM/ECLAIRs telescope triggered and located the long duration GRB 250106A (sb25010601) starting at 2025-01-06T02:29:19.972 UTC (Tb).
The following trigger information …
[View More]was received on the ground with low-latency by the SVOM VHF Alert Network.
The burst was detected by both the on-board Count-Rate Trigger (CRT) and Image Trigger (IMT) and 8 alerts were received. The best detection is obtained by IMT with a signal-to-noise ratio of 8.94 in the 8-50 keV energy band over a time window of 20.48 s starting at Tb.
The localization of the best Alert is RA, Dec = 117.152, 63.770 (J2000), which is
RA(J2000) = 07h 48m 36.480s
Dec(J2000)= +63d 46' 12.000'
The uncertainty on this position is 8.84 arcminutes at 90% C.L., to which we recommend adding 2 arcminutes of systematic uncertainty in quadrature.
The light curve shows one broad peak in 5-120 keV in ECLAIRs with a preliminary T90 duration of 93.64 s.
The SVOM/GRM light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/svgrb250106A.png
SVOM slewed automatically on this burst. The information about MXT and VT observations will be reported later.
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA), French Space Agency (CNES), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), which is dedicated to observing gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena in the energetic universe.
The SVOM point of contact for this burst is: Donghua ZHAO(zhaodh(a)bao.ac.cn)
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38824
SUBJECT: GRB 241229A: SVOM/VT optical upperlimit
DATE: 25/01/05 15:07:00 GMT
FROM: Liping Xin at NAOC, SVOM <xlp(a)nao.cas.cn>
SVOM/VT commissioning team: Y. L. Qiu, H. L. Li (NAOC), Y. F. Liang (PMOC), A. Li, Z. M. Wang (BNU), 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 (…
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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:
GRB 241229A (Liang et al., GCN 38697) was observed by SVOM/VT after the automatic slew of the platform. Additional ToO follow-up observation was also carried out. The VT conducted observations in VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm) channel simultaneously.
No any new source was detected in single or stacked images within the errorbox of Swift/XRT (M. A. Williams et al., GCN 38728) and Einstein Probe/FXT (S. Q. Jiang et al., GCN 38726, GCN 38740).
The 3 sigma limits in AB magnitude were derived as follows:
VT_B=21.8 mag and VT_R=21.8 mag with an exposure time of 100 sec at the mid time of about 1.4 hours after the burst.
VT_B=23.2 mag with exposure time of 1980 sec and VT_R= 22.5 mag with exposure time of 960 sec, at the mid time of about 10.9 hours after the burst.
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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