TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42308
SUBJECT: GRB 251016A: SVOM detection of a short burst
DATE: 25/10/16 15:30:00 GMT
FROM: SVOM_group <svomgroup(a)bao.ac.cn>
S. Basa, S. Boissier (LAM), O. Godet, S. Guillot (IRAP), D. Turpin (CEA)
At 2025-10-16T14:59:20 UTC (T0), SVOM/ECLAIRs triggered and located the gamma-ray burst GRB 251016A (SVOM burst-id sb25101602).
The following trigger information was received on the ground with low latency by the SVOM VHF Alert Network.
The burst was only detected by the Count-Rate Trigger (CRT), which produced a sequence of 5 alerts. CRT provided the alert with the best signal-to-noise-ratio in the image (SNR) of 8.16 in the [8-120] keV energy band over a time window of 0.60 seconds starting at 2025-10-16T14:59:19.
The localization of the best alert is R.A., Dec. 266.207, -39.577 degrees:
R.A. (J2000) = 17h44m49.58s
Dec. (J2000) = -39d34m35.95s
with a 90% confidence level (C.L.) radius of 9.64 arcmin (including systematic error of 2 arcmin added in quadrature).
The SVOM/ECLAIRs light curve showed a single and narrow peak.
This burst also triggered SVOM/GRM at 2025-10-16T14:59:19 on a timescale of 0.10 seconds with an SNR of 37.30.
This burst seems to have been detected by Fermi, but with a declination of about 10 degrees offset.
The satellite did not slew due to Sun constraint. No X-ray observation could be performed by SVOM/MXT for the time being. No optical observation could be performed by SVOM/VT for the time being.
The Space-based multi-band astronomical 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. SVOM/ECLAIRs was developed jointly by CNES, CEA-IRFU, CNRS-IRAP, CNRS-APC. SVOM/GRM was developed by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of CAS. SVOM/MXT was developed jointly by CNES, CEA-IRFU, CNRS-IJCLab, University of Leicester, MPE.
The Burst Advocate (BA) on shift for this alert is Stephane Basa: stephane.basa(a)lam.fr.
Please contact the BA by email if you require additional information.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42307
SUBJECT: GRB 251014A: Swift-XRT observations
DATE: 25/10/16 13:51:56 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), A. Melandri (INAF-OAR), T. Sbarrato
(INAF-OAB), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), J.A. Kennea (PSU), D.N. Burrows
(PSU), S. Lanava (PSU), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester) and P.A. Evans (U.
Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
We have analysed 6.2 ks of Photon Counting (PC) mode XRT data for GRB
251014A, collected between T0+101.1 ks and T0+174.7 ks.
Three uncatalogued X-ray sources have been detected within the
estimated 3-sigma Swift-BAT error region (296 arcsec), however none of
them is above the RASS limit or shows definitive signs of fading.
Therefore, at the present time we cannot identify which, if any, is the
afterglow. Details of these sources are given below:
Source 5:
RA (J2000.0): 111.7316 = 07h 26m 55.58s
Dec (J2000.0): +6.4150 = +06d 24' 53.9"
Error: 6.7 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.)
Count-rate: (2.33 [+0.88, -0.72])e-3 ct s^-1
Distance: 1 arcsec from Swift-BAT position.
Flux: (1.11 [+0.42, -0.34])e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (observed, 0.3-10 keV)
Source 8:
RA (J2000.0): 111.6918 = 07h 26m 46.04s
Dec (J2000.0): +6.4252 = +06d 25' 30.7"
Error: 6.1 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.)
Count-rate: (2.25 [+0.88, -0.72])e-3 ct s^-1
Distance: 148 arcsec from Swift-BAT position.
Flux: (7.1 [+2.8, -2.3])e-14 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (observed, 0.3-10 keV)
Source 9:
RA (J2000.0): 111.7868 = 07h 27m 08.82s
Dec (J2000.0): +6.3731 = +06d 22' 23.3"
Error: 5.6 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.)
Count-rate: (1.42 [+0.73, -0.56])e-3 ct s^-1
Distance: 247 arcsec from Swift-BAT position.
Flux: (4.8 [+2.5, -1.9])e-14 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (observed, 0.3-10 keV)
Seven uncatalogued sources were also detected too far from the GRB
position to be likely afterglow candidates.
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/01403878.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42306
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S251014cn: Updated Sky localization
DATE: 25/10/16 07:51:43 GMT
FROM: Nihar.Gupte(a)aei.mpg.de
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:
We have conducted further analysis of the LIGO Hanford Observatory (H1) and LIGO Livingston Observatory (L1) data around the time of the compact binary merger (CBC) candidate S251014cn (GCN Circular 42255. Parameter estimation has been performed using Bilby [1] and a new sky map, Bilby.multiorder.fits,0, distributed via GCN and SCiMMA notices, is available for retrieval from the GraceDB event page:
https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S251014cn
For the Bilby.multiorder.fits,0 sky map, the 90% credible region is 172 deg2. Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 607 +/- 164 Mpc (a posteriori mean +/- standard deviation).
For further information about analysis methodology and the contents of this alert, refer to the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Public Alerts User Guide https://emfollow.docs.ligo.org/.
[1] Ashton et al. ApJS 241, 27 (2019) doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ab06fc and Morisaki et al. PRD 108, 123040 (2023) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.108.123040
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42305
SUBJECT: GRB 251014B: PRIME J-band upper limit
DATE: 25/10/16 00:42:42 GMT
FROM: N. Passaleva at Sapienza University of Rome <niccolo.passaleva(a)uniroma1.it>
J. Durbak (UMD), N. Passaleva (U Rome), O. Guiffreda (UMD), M. El Kabir (U Rome), E. Troja (U Rome), A. S. Kutyrev (NASA/GSFC), S. B. Cenko (NASA/GSFC)
Following the Swift/BAT-GUANO (Ronchini et al., GCN 42263) detection of Fermi/GBM-detected event, we observed the transient field in J filter with PRIME. Observations started ~16 hours after the initial Fermi trigger.
Using VISTA Kilo-degree Infrared Galaxy (VIKING) Survey nearby stars for preliminary calibration we do not detect any uncatalogued source down to J>21 AB (3-sigma) not corrected for galactic extinction at the position of the candidates reported by Swift/XRT (Lanava et al. GCN 42289), confirming the optical non-detection reported by Yadav et al. (GCN 42287)
PRIME is a 1.8m telescope with 1.56 square degree FOV (0.5 arcsec/pixel) located in Sutherland, South Africa at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) (Kutyrev et al. 2023, Yama et al. 2023, Durbak et al. 2024).
We thank the Osaka University observers at PRIME and the staff at SAAO for their support with these observations.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42304
SUBJECT: Upper limits from a search for additional neutrino events in IceCube
DATE: 25/10/15 23:27:15 GMT
FROM: Yuhua Yao at IceCube/UW-Madison <yyao255(a)icecube.wisc.edu>
The IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports:
IceCube has performed a search [1] for additional track-like muon neutrino events arriving from the direction of IceCube-251014A (https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/42277) in a time range of 1000 seconds centered on the alert event time (2025-10-14 18:24:51.580 UTC to 2025-10-14 18:41:31.580 UTC) during which IceCube was collecting good quality data. Excluding the event that prompted the alert, zero track-like events are found within the 90% containment region of IceCube-251014A. We report a p-value of 1.00 in this time window. IceCube’s sensitivity to neutrino point sources with an E^-2.5 spectrum, expressed as E^2dN/dE evaluated at 1 TeV, is 1.4e-01 GeV cm^-2 within the 90% spatial containment region of IceCube-251014A in a 1000 second time window. 90% of events IceCube would detect from a source at this declination with an E^-2.5 spectrum have energies in the approximate energy range between 3e+02 GeV and 1e+05 GeV.
A subsequent search was performed including 2 days of data centered on the alert event time (2025-10-13 18:33:11.580 UTC to 2025-10-15 18:33:11.580 UTC). In this case, we report a p-value of 1.00, consistent with no significant excess of track events. IceCube’s sensitivity to neutrino point sources with an E^-2.5 spectrum, expressed as E^2 dN/dE evaluated at 1 TeV, is 1.6e-01 GeV cm^-2 within the 90% spatial containment region of IceCube-251014A in a 2 day time window.
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometer neutrino detector operating at the geographic South Pole, Antarctica. The IceCube realtime alert point of contact can be reached at roc(a)icecube.wisc.edu.
[1] IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi et al., ApJ 910 4 (2021)
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42303
SUBJECT: IceCube Alert 251014.77: Global MASTER-Net observations report
DATE: 25/10/15 22:39:32 GMT
FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov(a)xray.sai.msu.ru>
V.Lipunov, E.Gorbovskoy, A.Kuznetsov, K.Zhirkov, I.Panchenko, N.Tiurina, P.Balanutsa, V.Topolev, D.Vlasenko,
G.Antipov, A.Sankovich, Yu.Tselik, 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.Sosnovskij (CrAO),
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-SAAO robotic telescope (Global MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru, Lipunov et al., 2010, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2010, 30L) located in South Africa (South African Astronomical Observatory) was pointed to the IceCube Alert 251014.77 (trigger No 75492250,00h 11m 35.28s , +02d 54m 43.2s, R=0.51) errorbox 1 days 12049 sec after notice time and 1 days 12105 sec after trigger time at 2025-10-15 21:54:57 UT, with upper limit up to 19.5 mag. The observations began at zenith distance = 36 deg. The sun altitude is -48.7 deg.
The galactic latitude b = -58 deg., longitude l = 105 deg.
Real time updated cover map and OT discovered available here:
https://master.sai.msu.ru/site/master2/observ.php?id=3014752
We obtain a following upper limits.
Tmid-T0 | Date Time | Site | Coord (J2000) |Filt.| Expt. | Limit| Comment
_________|_____________________|_____________________|____________________________________|_____|_______|_______|________
98536 | 2025-10-15 21:54:57 | MASTER-SAAO | (00h 08m 40.80s , +02d 48m 16.0s) | C | 60 | 19.4 |
98536 | 2025-10-15 21:54:57 | MASTER-SAAO | (00h 10m 29.80s , +02d 32m 25.7s) | C | 60 | 19.5 |
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: 42302
SUBJECT: Swift GRB251015.60: Global MASTER-Net observations report
DATE: 25/10/15 22:02:26 GMT
FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov(a)xray.sai.msu.ru>
V.Lipunov, E.Gorbovskoy, A.Kuznetsov, K.Zhirkov, I.Panchenko, N.Tiurina, P.Balanutsa, V.Topolev, D.Vlasenko,
G.Antipov, A.Sankovich, Yu.Tselik, 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.Sosnovskij (CrAO),
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-SAAO robotic telescope (Global MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru, Lipunov et al., 2010, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2010, 30L) located in South Africa (South African Astronomical Observatory) was pointed to the Swift GRB251015.60 (trigger No 1404295,16h 20m 01.68s , -54d 51m 10.8s, R=0.05) errorbox 27211 sec after notice time and 27228 sec after trigger time at 2025-10-15 21:51:12 UT, with upper limit up to 16.1 mag. The observations began at zenith distance = 83 deg. The sun altitude is -48.5 deg.
The galactic latitude b = -4 deg., longitude l = 330 deg.
Real time updated cover map and OT discovered available here:
https://master.sai.msu.ru/site/master2/observ.php?id=3015339
We obtain a following upper limits.
Tmid-T0 | Site |Filt.| Expt. | Limit| Comment
_________|_____________________|_____|_______|______|________
27319 | MASTER-SAAO | C | 180 | 15.1 |
27319 | MASTER-SAAO | C | 180 | 16.1 |
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: 42301
SUBJECT: GRB 251013C: Kilonova-Catcher optical afterglow detection
DATE: 25/10/15 20:35:57 GMT
FROM: Damien Turpin at CEA-Saclay <dturpin-astro(a)hotmail.com>
S. Leonini, M. Freeberg, R. Hellot (KNC), D. Turpin (CEA-Saclay/Irfu), C. Andrade(UMN), S. Antier (OCA/IJCLab), M. Coughlin (UMN), S. Karpov (FZU), P. Hello (IJCLAB), M. Pillas (IAP) on behalf of the GRANDMA/Kilonova-Catcher collaboration:
We observed the field of GRB 251013C detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN 42221), SVOM/ECLAIRs and GRM (Rakotondrainibe et al., GCN 42223) and AstroSat CZTI (Arya et al., GCN 42246) with the GRANDMA citizen science project Kilonova-catcher (KNC). Our observations were performed with the TEC180FL, iT32 and iT72 telescopes operated by M. Freeberg, the automated and remoted 0.53m Ritchey-Chretien telescope at Montarrenti Observatory (Siena, Italy, IAU code C88) operated by S. Leonini and a CDK17 telescope located at AITP San Pedro Chile Observatory operated by R. Hellot. Our observations started at TGRB+3.0hr and were taken with Clear, sdss gri and Rc Ic filters.
In our stacked frames, subtracted from the PanSTARRS DR2 template image, we detect the optical counterpart firstly reported by SVOM/VT (Palmerio et al., GCN 42223) and later confirmed by many other teams.
We report part of our follow-up results in the table below:
+---------------+----------+------------+----------------+------------------+
| Tmid-TGRB (hr)| Exp (s) | Filter | Magnitude | Instrument |
+===============+==========+============+================+==================+
| 3.18 | 30 x 30s | Rc (Vega) | 16.29 +/- 0.04 | Montarrenti Obs. |
| 6.47 | 5 x 300s | Rc (Vega) | 17.63 +/- 0.02 | iT72 |
| 8.26 | 6 x 300s | r (AB) | 18.24 +/- 0.05 | CDK17 AITP |
+---------------+----------+------------+----------------+------------------+
All the data have been reduced by a single data processing pipeline, STDPipe (Karpov et al., 2022). Images obtained with the sloan filters were calibrated using the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog. Images obtained with the Johnson-cousins filters were calibrated using the GAIA DR3 synphot catalog.
We use the SkyPortal application (skyportal.io) to monitor our observational campaign (Coughlin et al. 2023).
GRANDMA is a worldwide telescope network (grandma.ijclab.in2p3.fr) devoted to the observation of transients in the context of multi-messenger astrophysics (Antier et al. 2020 MNRAS 497, 5518). Kilonova-Catcher (KNC) is the citizen science program of GRANDMA (http://kilonovacatcher.in2p3.fr/).
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42300
SUBJECT: Fermi-LAT Gamma-ray Observations of IceCube-251014A
DATE: 25/10/15 20:30:22 GMT
FROM: Leo Pfeiffer at University of Würzburg <pfeiffer.leo(a)gmail.com>
L. Pfeiffer (Univ. of Wuerzburg), S. Buson (DESY, Univ. of Wuerzburg) and S. Garrappa (Weizmann Institute of Science) on behalf of the Fermi-LAT collaboration:
We report an analysis of observations of the vicinity of the high-energy IC251014A neutrino event (GCN 42277) 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 25-10-14 at 18:33:11.58 UTC (T0) with J2000 position RA = 2.81 (+0.48, -0.49) deg, Decl. = 2.91 (+0.49, -0.49 ) deg 90% PSF containment (J2000). No cataloged gamma-ray sources are found within the 90% IC251014A localization error (4FGL-DR4; The Fourth Fermi-LAT catalog Data Release 4, The Fermi-LAT collaboration 2023, arXiv:2307.12546).
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 IC251014A 90% confidence localization. Assuming a power-law spectrum (photon index = 2.0 fixed) for a point source at the IC251014A best-fit position, the >100 MeV flux upper limit (95% confidence) is <1.9e-10 ph cm^-2 s^-1 for ~17-years (2008-08-04 / T0), <1.6e-08 (<8.0e-07) ph cm^-2 s^-1 for a 1-month (1-day) integration time before T0.
Since Fermi normally operates in an all-sky scanning mode, regular monitoring of this source will continue. For this analysis, the Fermi-LAT contact person is L. Pfeiffer (leonard.pfeiffer at uni-wuerzburg.de).
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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