TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38795
SUBJECT: GRB 250103A: Xinglong 2.16m Optical Candidate
DATE: 25/01/03 14:18:28 GMT
FROM: Rui-Zhi Li at Yunnan Observatories, CAS <liruizhi(a)ynao.ac.cn>
R.-Z. Li, B.-T. Wang, J. Mao (YNAO, CAS), L. P. XIN, J. Y. Wei, H. L. Li, Y. L. Qiu, J. Wang, C. Wu, X. H. Han (NAOC), J. X. Cao, D. F. Kong (GXU) and Y. Wang (PMO, CAS) report on behalf of SVOM team:
We observed the field of GRB 250103A (Wang et al., GCN 38786) using the 2.16m telescope at …
[View More]the Xinglong Observatory, China. The observation began at 2025-01-03T11:41:12 UTC, about 1.74 hours after the trigger. 5*200 sec I-band images were obtained.
An uncataloged bright source was detected in I-band images within the error box of SVOM/ECLAIR (Wang et al., GCN 38786), compared to Pan-STARRS1 image. The coordinates (J2000):
R.A. = 01:28:15.29
DEC. = -05:03:06.4
with an uncertainty of 0.5 arcseconds.
The preliminary analysis results are shown as follows:
+-------------------+------------+----------+--------------+----------------+
| Tstart (UTC) | Exp. [s] | Filter | Mag | 5-sigma U.L. |
+===================+============+==========+==============+================+
|2025-01-03T11:41:12| 5*200 | I | 19.49 ± 0.04 | 21.5 |
+-------------------+------------+----------+--------------+----------------+
We propose it is the candidate of the burst. More follow-ups are encouraged to confirm the nature of the source.
The given magnitudes are derived based on calibration against Pan-STARRS1 field stars, and are not corrected for the expected Galactic foreground extinction, corresponding to a reddening of E(B-V) = 0.0362 mag in the direction of the optical counterpart (Schlafly & Finkbeiner 2011).
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38793
SUBJECT: GRB 250101B: SVOM/GRM observation
DATE: 25/01/03 13:31:25 GMT
FROM: wenlongzhang2018(a)163.com
SVOM/GRM team: Wen-Long Zhang, Wen-Jun Tan, Chen-Wei Wang, Shi-Jie Zheng, Shao-Lin Xiong, Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP),
report on behalf of the SVOM team:
During the commissioning phase, SVOM/GRM detected GRB 250101B at 2025-01-01T23:14:12 UT (T0), which was also observed by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 38766).
With the event-by-event data …
[View More]downloaded through the X-band ground station, the GRM light curve shows that this burst consists of two main pulses with a T90 of 5.27 +/-1.24 s.
This burst is located (from Fermi/GBM) at about 96.02 degrees from the SVOM optical axis, and outside the ECLAIRs field of view.
The GRM light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/svgrb250101B.png
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. GRM is developed by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of CAS.
The SVOM point of contact for this burst is: Wen-Long Zhang (IHEP)(zhangwl(a)ihep.ac.cn)
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38792
SUBJECT: GRB 250103A: GOTO optical upper limit
DATE: 25/01/03 13:19:30 GMT
FROM: Rhaana Starling at U of Leicester <rlcs1(a)leicester.ac.uk>
R. Starling, D. O’Neill, A. Kumar, B. Godson, B. P. Gompertz, K. Ackley, M. J. Dyer, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, F. Jimenez-Ibarra, D. Steeghs, D. K. Galloway, V. Dhillon, P. O'Brien, G. Ramsay, K. Noysena, R. Kotak, R. P. Breton, L. K. Nuttall, E. Palle and D. Pollacco report on behalf of the GOTO collaboration:
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The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO; Steeghs et al. 2022, Dyer et al. 2024) serendipitously covered the field of SVOM-triggered GRB 250103A (Wang et al. GCN 38787) at 11:06:02 UT on 2025-01-03 (1.17 hours after the trigger). The observation was taken by GOTO-South, and consisted of 4x90s exposures in the GOTO L-band (400-700 nm).
Images were processed immediately after acquisition using the GOTO pipeline. Difference imaging was performed using deeper template observations of the same pointings. Source candidates were initially filtered using a classifier (Killestein et al. 2021) and cross-matched against a variety of contextual and minor planet catalogues.
We do not identify any candidate optical counterparts within the SVOM localisation uncertainty region, down to a 3-sigma limiting magnitude of L > 19.8, consistent with the non-detection reported by Wu et al. (GCN 38791).
Magnitudes were calibrated using ATLAS-REFCAT2 (Tonry et al. 2018) and are not corrected for Galactic extinction.
GOTO (https://goto-observatory.org) is a network of telescopes that is principally funded by the STFC and operated at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, Spain, and Siding Spring Observatory in NSW, Australia, on behalf of a consortium including the University of Warwick, Monash University, Armagh Observatory & Planetarium, the University of Leicester, the University of Sheffield, the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT), the University of Turku, the University of Portsmouth, the University of Manchester and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC).
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38791
SUBJECT: GRB 250103A: SVOM/C-GFT optical upper limit
DATE: 25/01/03 13:07:47 GMT
FROM: Chao Wu at NAOC <cwu(a)nao.cas.cn>
SVOM/C-GFT team: Chao WU (NAOC), Zhe Kang (CHO), Liping Xin(NAOC),Yulei Qiu (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), Bertrand Cordier (CEA), Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP), Stéphane Basa (LAM), Arnaud …
[View More]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)
We observed the field of GRB 250103A (Wang et al., GCN 38787) starting at 2025-01-03T09:57:26, ~83 sec after the burst trigger with C-GFT. A series of g,r,i band images were obtained with exposure time of 10s for each frame. No any uncataloged sources were detected within the SVOM/ECLAIRs error circle (Wang et al., GCN 38787) compared to PanSTARRS1 catalog. 3 sigma limit magnitude of i=19.4 was derived at the middle time of ~120 s after the trigger.
We thank the observation assistant Guangsheng Zhang and Yinhuai Hao at Jilin observatory for their excellent support.
Chinese Ground Follow-up Telescope of SVOM mission is located at Jilin, 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.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38790
SUBJECT: GRB 250101A: NUTTelA-TAO / BSTI Optical Limits
DATE: 25/01/03 12:16:34 GMT
FROM: Toktarkhan Komesh at Nazarbayev University <toktarkhan.komesh(a)nu.edu.kz>
T. Komesh (NU), Z. Maksut (NU), Z. Abdullayev (NU), B. Grossan (UCB, NU), D. Berdikhan (NU), M. Krugov (FAI) and E. Abdikamalov (NU) report on behalf of the Energetic Cosmos Laboratory:
The Nazarbayev University Transient Telescope at Assy-Turgen Astrophysical Observatory (NUTTelA-…
[View More]TAO) observed the field of GRB 250101A at 14:00:32 UT on 2025-01-02, 24.8 hours after the BAT trigger. Observations were made in clear conditions. No source consistent with the XRT (P.A. Evans et al., GCN 38708; T. Komesh et al., GCN 38777) was detected. We report the following results:
t-t0(h) UL g' UL r' exposure_time (s)
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24.8 21.0 20.8 300
t is the middle time, t0 is the BAT trigger time, t-t0 is given in hours. UL gives the 5 sigma upper limit sensitivity in magnitudes, for images of the given exposure time. Calibration was done with 4 Pan-STARRS catalog stars on our images. No color or other corrections were applied to the values above.
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NU = Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
UCB = University of California, Berkeley, USA
FAI = Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Kazakhstan
This research has been funded by the Science Committee of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Grant No. AP26103591). The NUTTelA-TAO Team acknowledges the support of the staff of the Assy-Turgen Astrophysical Observatory, Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Almaty, Kazkhstan.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38789
SUBJECT: IceCube Alert 250102.58: Global MASTER-Net observations report
DATE: 25/01/03 11:39:39 GMT
FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov(a)xray.sai.msu.ru>
V.Lipunov, E.Gorbovskoy, N.Tiurina, P.Balanutsa, , D.Vlasenko, I.Panchenko,
A.Kuznetsov, G.Antipov, A.Sankovich, A.Sosnovskij, Yu.Tselik, M.Gulyaev, Ya.Kechin,
V.Senik, A.Chasovnikov, K.Labsina, I. Gorbunov (Lomonosov MSU),
O.Gress, N.Budnev (ISU),
C.Francile, F. …
[View More]Podesta, R.Podesta, E. Gonzalez (Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (OAFA),
A. Tlatov, D. Dormidontov (Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory),
A. Gabovich, V.Yurkov (Blagoveschensk Educational StateUniversity)
D.Buckley (SAAO),
R.Rebolo (The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias),
L.Carrasco, J.R.Valdes, V.Chavushyan, V.M.Patino Alvarez, J.Martinez,
A.R.Corella, L.H.Rodriguez (INAOE, Guillermo Haro Astrophysics Observatory)
MASTER-Kislovodsk robotic telescope (Global MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru, Lipunov et al., 2010, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2010, 30L) located in Russia (Lomonosov MSU, Kislovodsk Solar Station of Pulkovo observatory) started inspect of the IceCube Alert 250102.58 (trigger No 61338661,17h 30m 43.68s , +06d 39m 25.2s, R=2.29) errorbox 45219 sec after notice time and 45287 sec after trigger time at 2025-01-03 02:22:49 UT, with upper limit up to 17.6 mag. The observations began at zenith distance = 79 deg. The sun altitude is -24.6 deg.
The galactic latitude b = 20 deg., longitude l = 30 deg.
Real time updated cover map and OT discovered available here:
https://master.sai.msu.ru/site/master2/observ.php?id=2731505
We obtain a following upper limits.
Tmid-T0 | Date Time | Site | Coord (J2000) |Filt.| Expt. | Limit| Comment
_________|_____________________|_____________________|____________________________________|_____|_______|_______|________
45378 | 2025-01-03 02:22:49 | MASTER-Kislovodsk | (17h 28m 54.07s , +06d 44m 57.4s) | C | 180 | 17.2 |
46794 | 2025-01-03 02:46:26 | MASTER-Kislovodsk | (17h 28m 40.69s , +06d 44m 25.6s) | C | 180 | 17.6 |
Filter C is a clear (unfiltred) band.
The observation and reduction will continue.
The message may be cited.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38788
SUBJECT: EP241231b: optical upper limit with the Liverpool Telescope
DATE: 25/01/03 11:30:04 GMT
FROM: Amit Kumar at Royal Holloway - UoL/ U of Warwick, UK <amitkundu515(a)gmail.com>
A. Kumar, J. R. Maund (RHUL), N. C. Sun (UCAS), W. X. Li, Y. N. Wang (NAOC), and K. Wiersema (Herts) report:
We observed the field of Einstein Probe detected EP241231b (Liang et al., GCN 38778) with the IO:O Imager at the 2m Liverpool telescope. We observed a …
[View More]single 200s image in the g-band at 2025-01-02 UT 23:31:26.731 (~2.169 days post-trigger). Further observations were suspended due to bad weather conditions.
No new, uncatalogued source was detected in a preliminary visual examination within the EP-WXT localisation uncertainty, down to a limiting g-band magnitude of >21.5 (AB).
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38787
SUBJECT: GRB 250103A: SVOM detection of a long burst
DATE: 25/01/03 11:16:17 GMT
FROM: SVOM_group <svomgroup(a)bao.ac.cn>
Y. Wang (PMO, CAS), J-X. Cao (GXU), D. Turpin (CEA), S. Guillot (IRAP), H. Goto (CEA), F. Daigne (IAP), L, Zhang (IHEP) report on behalf of the SVOM team:
The SVOM/ECLAIRs telescope triggered and located the long duration GRB 250103A (sb25010301) starting at 2025-01-03T09:56:33.551 UTC (Tb).
The following trigger …
[View More]information 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 18 alerts were received. The best detection is obtained by CRT with a signal-to-noise ratio of 18.6 in the 8-50 keV energy band over a time window of 20 s starting at Tb.
The localization of the best Alert is RA, Dec = 22.083, -5.096 (J2000). The statistical uncertainty on this position is 4.6 arcminutes, which includes a systematic uncertainty of 2 arcminutes in quadrature.
The light curve shows multiple broad peaks in 5-120 keV in ECLAIRs and below 550 keV in GRM with a preliminary T90 duration greater than 250 s (5-120 keV).
The SVOM/GRM light curve can be found here: https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/svgrb250103A.png
SVOM slewed automatically on this burst.
MXT began observing the field at 2025-01-03T10:12:28 UTC, 955 seconds after Tb. No X-ray afterglow candidate has been detected in the MXT field of view by the on-board software. Further analysis will be conducted once the X-band telemetry data are received.
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: Yun Wang (wangyun(a)pmo.ac.cn)
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 38786
SUBJECT: GRB 250103A: SVOM detection of a long burst
DATE: 25/01/03 11:15:16 GMT
FROM: SVOM_group <svomgroup(a)bao.ac.cn>
Y. Wang (PMO, CAS), J-X. Cao (GXU), D. Turpin (CEA), S. Guillot (IRAP), H. Goto (CEA), F. Daigne (IAP), L. Zhang (IHEP) report on behalf of the SVOM team:
The SVOM/ECLAIRs telescope triggered and located the long duration GRB 250103A (sb25010301) starting at 2025-01-03T09:56:33.551 UTC (Tb).
The following trigger …
[View More]information 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 18 alerts were received. The best detection is obtained by CRT with a signal-to-noise ratio of 18.6 in the 8-50 keV energy band over a time window of 20 s starting at Tb.
The localization of the best Alert is RA, Dec = 22.083, -5.096 (J2000). The statistical uncertainty on this position is 4.6 arcminutes, which includes a systematic uncertainty of 2 arcminutes in quadrature.
The light curve shows multiple broad peaks in 5-120 keV in ECLAIRs and below 550 keV in GRM with a preliminary T90 duration greater than 250 s (5-120 keV).
The SVOM/GRM light curve can be found here: https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/svgrb250103A.png
SVOM slewed automatically on this burst.
MXT began observing the field at 2025-01-03T10:12:28 UTC, 955 seconds after Tb. No X-ray afterglow candidate has been detected in the MXT field of view by the on-board software. Further analysis will be conducted once the X-band telemetry data are received.
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: Yun Wang (wangyun(a)pmo.ac.cn)
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