TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39058
SUBJECT: GRB 250128B: Swift detection of a short burst
DATE: 25/01/28 16:38:33 GMT
FROM: P.A. Evans at U. Leicester <pae9(a)leicester.ac.uk>
P. A. Evans (U Leicester), R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris (U Leicester),
R. Gupta (NASA GSFC), J. A. Kennea (PSU), K. L. Page (U Leicester),
B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB) and M. A. Williams (PSU) report on behalf of
the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Team:
At 16:22:53 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and
located GRB 250128B (trigger=1285677). Swift slewed immediately to the burst.
The BAT on-board calculated location is
RA, Dec 231.420, -0.517 which is
RA(J2000) = 15h 25m 41s
Dec(J2000) = -00d 31' 01"
with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including
systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve showed a single peak
structure with a duration of about 0.5 sec. The peak count rate
was ~5578 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~0 sec after the trigger.
The XRT began observing the field at 16:24:12.3 UT, 78.6 seconds after
the BAT trigger. Using promptly downlinked data we find an uncatalogued
X-ray source with an enhanced position: RA, Dec 231.42552, -0.53970
which is equivalent to:
RA(J2000) = 15h 25m 42.12s
Dec(J2000) = -00d 32' 22.9"
with an uncertainty of 1.9 arcseconds (radius, 90% containment). This
location is 84 arcseconds from the BAT onboard position, within the BAT
error circle. This position may be improved as more data are received;
the latest position is available at https://www.swift.ac.uk/sper. We
cannot determine whether the source is fading at the present time.
A power-law fit to a spectrum formed from promptly downlinked event
data gives a column density consistent with the Galactic value of 8.00
x 10^20 cm^-2 (Willingale et al. 2013).
UVOT took a finding chart exposure of 150 seconds with the White filter
starting 82 seconds after the BAT trigger. No credible afterglow candidate has
been found in the initial data products. The 2.7'x2.7' sub-image covers 100% of
the XRT error circle. The typical 3-sigma upper limit has been about 19.6 mag.
The 8'x8' region for the list of sources generated on-board covers 100% of the
XRT error circle. The list of sources is typically complete to about 18 mag. No
correction has been made for the expected extinction corresponding to E(B-V) of
0.121.
Burst Advocate for this burst is P. A. Evans (pae9 AT leicester.ac.uk).
Please contact the BA by email if you require additional information
regarding Swift followup of this burst. In extremely urgent cases, after
trying the Burst Advocate, you can contact the Swift PI by phone (see
Swift TOO web site for information: http://www.swift.psu.edu/)
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39056
SUBJECT: GRB 250127A: Swift-XRT observations
DATE: 25/01/28 16:28:52 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
J.A. Kennea (PSU), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), J.P. Osborne (U.
Leicester), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB), C. Salvaggio (INAF-OAB), M. Ferro
(INAF-OAB), D.N. Burrows (PSU), M. A. Williams (PSU) and P.A. Evans (U.
Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of the
SVOM/ECLAIRs-detected burst GRB 250127A, collecting 2.9 ks of Photon
Counting (PC) mode data between T0+18.3 ks and T0+25.4 ks.
One uncatalogued X-ray sources have been detected within the estimated
90% SVOM/ECLAIRs error region (4.8 arcmin; GCN Circ. 39041), it is
below the RASS limit and shows no definitive signs of fading in the two
snapshot of observations that were taken. Details of this source are
given below:
Source 2:
RA (J2000.0): 169.6282 = 11:18:30.76
Dec (J2000.0): +3.3518 = +03:21:06.4
Error: 8.6 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.)
Count-rate: (2.9 [+1.5, -1.1])e-3 ct s^-1
Distance: 138 arcsec from SVOM/ECLAIRs position.
Flux: (3.3 [+1.7, -1.3])e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (observed, 0.3-10 keV)
The source was also detected by the FXT telescope on board of Einstein
Probe (GCN Circ. 39053), which observed this field around the same time
of the XRT observations.
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/00021757.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39055
SUBJECT: GRB 250127B: DDOTI Upper Limit on the Afterglow
DATE: 25/01/28 14:48:39 GMT
FROM: Rosa L. Becerra at Tor Vergata, Roma <rosa.becerra(a)roma2.infn.it>
Rosa L. Becerra (U Rome), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Eleonora Troja (U Rome), Camila Angulo Valdez (UNAM), Nat Butler (ASU), Simone Dichiara (Penn State University), Tsvetelina Dimitrova (ASU), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC/UMD), William H. Lee (UNAM), Océlotl López (UNAM), and Margarita Pereyra (UNAM) report:
We observed the field of the GRB 250127B detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 39046) with the DDOTI/OAN wide-field imager at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on Sierra San Pedro Mártir (http://ddoti.astroscu.unam.mx) on 2025-01-28 from 10:24 to 10:53 UTC (19.2 to 19.7 hrs after the event). Our observations cover about the 70% of the error region (statistical only) down to a 10-sigma limiting magnitude of w = 20 AB mag.
Comparing our observations to the USNO-B1 and PanSTARRS PS1 DR2 catalogues, we
detect no uncatalogued sources within the observed field to our 10-sigma limit within the error radius reported by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 39046). This upper limit is consistent with the non detection from the Global MASTER-Net (Lipunov et al., 2025, GCN 39049).
We thank the DDOTI technical team and the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39054
SUBJECT: Fermi-LAT Gamma-ray Observations of IceCube-250102A
DATE: 25/01/28 12:08:26 GMT
FROM: Simone Garrappa at Weizmann Institute of Science <simone.garrappa(a)weizmann.ac.il>
S. Garrappa (Weizmann Institute of Science), C. Bartolini (INFN Bari), L. Pfeiffer (Univ. of Wuerzburg), S. Buson (DESY, Univ. of Wuerzburg) and P. M. Veres (Ruhr University Bochum) on behalf of the Fermi-LAT collaboration:
We report an analysis of observations of the vicinity of the high-energy IC250102A neutrino event (GCN 38781) with all-sky survey data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT), on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The IceCube event was detected on 2025-01-02 13:48:01.92 UTC (T0) with J2000 position RA = 262.79 (+1.32, -1.09) deg, Decl. = 6.69 (+0.97, -0.84) deg 90% PSF containment.
Two cataloged gamma-ray sources are found within the 90% IC250102A localization error (The Fourth Fermi-LAT catalog, 4FGL-DR4, The Fermi-LAT collaboration 2023, arXiv:2307.12546). These are the unassociated source 4FGL J1731.6+0630 and 4FGL J1727.2+0644, associated with the blazar of uncertain type NVSS J172720+064123. Based on a preliminary analysis of the LAT data over the timescale of one month prior T0, these objects are not significantly detected at gamma-rays.
We searched for the existence of intermediate (days to years) timescale emission from a new gamma-ray transient source. Preliminary analysis indicates no significant (>5sigma) new excess emission (> 100 MeV) within the IC250102A 90% confidence localization. Assuming a power-law spectrum (photon index = 2.0 fixed) for a point source at the IceCube best-fit position, the >100 MeV flux upper limit (95% confidence) is <4.7e-10 ph cm^-2 s^-1 for ~16-years (2008-08-04 / T0), <1.6e-08 ph cm^-2 s^-1 for a 1-month integration time before T0.
Since Fermi normally operates in an all-sky scanning mode, regular monitoring of this source will continue. For this source, the Fermi-LAT contact person is S. Garrappa (simone.garrappa at weizmann.ac.il).
The Fermi LAT is a pair conversion telescope designed to cover the energy band from 20 MeV to greater than 300 GeV. It is the product of an international collaboration between NASA and DOE in the U.S. and many scientific institutions across France, Italy, Japan and Sweden.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39053
SUBJECT: GRB 250127A: EP-FXT afterglow detection
DATE: 25/01/28 11:49:14 GMT
FROM: EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta(a)bao.ac.cn>
Y.-H. I. Yin (NJU), Y. L. Wang, H. N. Yang, H. Y. Liu (NAO, CAS), Z. Y. Liu, M. Q. Huang (USTC), Z. X. Ling, Y. Liu (NAO, CAS), B. Cordier (CEA) on behalf of the Einstein Probe team:
We performed a follow-up observation of GRB 250127A (SVOM, Wu et al., GCN 39041) with the Follow-up X-ray Telescope (FXT) on board the Einstein Probe (EP) mission. The observation started at 2025-01-27 11:29:09 (UTC) with ~ 2.4 ks of exposure in total.
An uncatalogued X-ray source is detected by both modules of FXT at the position of R. A. = 169.6284 deg, DEC = 3.3508 deg (J2000) with an uncertainty of 10 arcsec (90% C. L.), which is 2.38 arcmin away from the SVOM position (Wu et al., GCN 39041). This position is also consistent with the location of Swift/XRT Source 2 (P. A. Evans, GCN 39044). The average FXT 0.5-10 keV spectrum can be fitted with an absorbed power law with a fixed Galactic equivalent hydrogen column density of 4.52 x 10^20 cm^-2 and a photon index of 1.79 (-0.92/+0.92). The derived average unabsorbed 0.5-10 keV flux is 1.30 (-0.68/+1.44) x 10^(-13) erg/s/cm^2. The uncertainties are at the 90% confidence level for the above parameters.
Launched on January 9, 2024, EP is a space X-ray observatory to monitor the soft X-ray sky with X-ray follow-up capability (Yuan et al. 2022, Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics). EP is a mission of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in collaboration with ESA, MPE and CNES.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39052
SUBJECT: Fermi GRB 250128A: Global MASTER-Net observations report
DATE: 25/01/28 11:32:15 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. 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-Tunka robotic telescope (Global MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru, Lipunov et al., 2010, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2010, 30L) located in Russia (Applied Physics Institute, Irkutsk State University) started inspect of the Fermi GRB 250128A ( Fermi GBM team, GCN 39051) errorbox 568 sec after notice time and 595 sec after trigger time at 2025-01-28 10:43:38 UT, with upper limit up to 15.8 mag. Observations started at twilight. The observations began at zenith distance = 53 deg. The sun altitude is -8.6 deg.
The galactic latitude b = 23 deg., longitude l = 93 deg.
Real time updated cover map and OT discovered available here:
https://master.sai.msu.ru/site/master2/observ.php?id=2758800
We obtain a following upper limits.
Tmid-T0 | Date Time | Site | Coord (J2000) |Filt.| Expt. | Limit| Comment
_________|_____________________|_____________________|____________________________________|_____|_______|_______|________
597 | 2025-01-28 10:43:38 | MASTER-Tunka | (18h 55m 15.13s , +62d 26m 57.5s) | C | 1 | 15.2 |
598 | 2025-01-28 10:43:38 | MASTER-Tunka | (18h 55m 15.13s , +62d 26m 57.5s) | C | 3 | 15.8 | Coadd
602 | 2025-01-28 10:43:43 | MASTER-Tunka | (18h 55m 15.05s , +62d 26m 57.5s) | C | 1 | 15.1 |
608 | 2025-01-28 10:43:49 | MASTER-Tunka | (18h 55m 15.04s , +62d 26m 56.9s) | C | 1 | 15.1 |
613 | 2025-01-28 10:43:54 | MASTER-Tunka | (18h 55m 15.13s , +62d 26m 56.7s) | C | 1 | 15.3 |
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: 39050
SUBJECT: GRB 250117A: Fermi GBM Observation
DATE: 25/01/28 00:30:20 GMT
FROM: oindabimukherjee(a)gmail.com
O. Mukherjee (USRA) and C. Meegan (UAH) report on behalf of
the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"At 20:21:57.89 UT on 17 January 2025, the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)
triggered and located GRB 250117A (trigger 758838122/250117849).
which was also detected by Konus-Wind (Ridnaia et al. 2025, GCN 39001),
Swift/BAT-GUANO (DeLaunay et al. 2025, GCN 38988), and SVOM/GRM (Wang et al. 2025, GCN 38994).
The on-ground calculated location, using the Fermi GBM trigger data,
is RA = 252.55, Dec = -26.18 (J2000 degrees, equivalent to
J2000 20h 26m, +21d 13'), with a statistical uncertainty of 3.32 degrees.
(radius, 1-sigma containment, statistical only; there is additionally a
systematic error which we have characterized as a mixture of two Gaussians,
one with a radius of 1.8 degrees (52% contribution) and one with a radius
of 4.1 degrees (47% contribution) [A. Goldstein et al. 2020, ApJ, 895, 1]).
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is 67 degrees.
An overwhelming volume of data produced by a contemporaneous solar flare
affected the spacecraft's ability to record data nominally, so TTE data was unavailable for this burst.
Consequently, the temporal and spectral analysis used the CTIME and CSPEC data types only.
The GBM light curve consists of one peak with a duration (T90)
of about 0.8 s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum
from T0+0.002 to T0+1.824 s is best fit by
a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff.
The power law index is -1.18 +/- 0.09 and the cutoff energy,
parameterized as Epeak, is 904 +/- 386 keV.
The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(1.35 +/- 0.08)E-06 erg/cm^2. The 64-ms peak photon flux measured
starting from T0+0.35 s in the 10-1000 keV band is 27 +/- 1 ph/s/cm^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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