TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42291
SUBJECT: GRB 251013D: Swift-XRT observations
DATE: 25/10/15 14:47:57 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
D.N. Burrows (PSU), S. Lanava (PSU), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), K.L.
Page (U. Leicester), R. Brivio (INAF-OAB), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), S.
Campana (INAF-OAB), S. Dichiara (PSU) and P.A. Evans (U. Leicester)
reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of the Fermi/GBM and
Swift/BAT-GUANO detected burst GRB 251013D, collecting 4.9 ks of
Photon Counting (PC) mode data between T0+71.0 ks and T0+83.7 ks.
Two uncatalogued X-ray sources have been detected within the estimated
3-sigma BAT-GUANO error region (394 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 1:
RA (J2000.0): 46.8919 = 03h 07m 34.05s
Dec (J2000.0): +8.7859 = +08d 47' 09.2"
Error: 5.6 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.)
Count-rate: (3.42 [+1.17, -0.97])e-3 ct s^-1
Distance: 37 arcsec from Fermi/GBM position.
Flux: (1.83 [+1.3, -1.1])e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (observed, 0.3-10 keV)
Source 2:
RA (J2000.0): 46.9703 = 03h 07m 52.86s
Dec (J2000.0): +8.8156 = +08d 48' 56.0"
Error: 6.0 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.)
Count-rate: (2.00 [+0.95, -0.74])e-3 ct s^-1
Distance: 331 arcsec from Fermi/GBM position.
Flux: (3.4 [+6.2, -1.8])e-14 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (observed, 0.3-10 keV)
Two 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/00021861.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42290
SUBJECT: Swift Trigger 1404295: possible GRB 251015A
DATE: 25/10/15 14:44:43 GMT
FROM: K.L. Page at U Leicester <klp5(a)leicester.ac.uk>
N. J. Klingler (GSFC/UMBC/CRESSTII), R. Brivio (INAF-OAB),
S. Dichiara (PSU), M. Ferro (INAF-OAB), R. Gupta (NASA GSFC),
N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL), A. Mei (INAF-OAB), K. L. Page (U Leicester),
D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. Sbarrato (INAF-OAB) and M. H. Siegel (PSU)
report on behalf of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Team:
At 14:17:23 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and
located a possible GRB 251015A (trigger=1404295). Swift slewed
immediately to the location.
The BAT on-board calculated location is
RA, Dec 245.007, -54.853 which is
RA(J2000) = 16h 20m 02s
Dec(J2000) = -54d 51' 10"
with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including
systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve showed a complex
structure with a duration of about 10 sec. The peak count rate
was ~800 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~0 sec after the trigger.
The XRT began observing the field at 14:19:31.3 UT, 127.6 seconds after
the BAT trigger. No source was detected in 877 s of promptly downlinked
data. We are waiting for the full dataset to detect and localise the
XRT counterpart.
UVOT took a finding chart exposure of 150 seconds with the White filter
starting 870 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 25% of
the BAT error circle. Because of the density of catalogued stars, further
analysis is required to report an upper limit for any afterglow in the
sub-image. The 8'x8' region for the list of sources generated on-board covers
0.00% of the BAT error circle. No correction has been made for the large, but
uncertain, extinction expected.
Due to the marginal detection in the BAT image (6.53 sigma) and
the lack of an XRT counterpart, we believe that this is most likely
to be a noise fluctuation, but might be a GRB. Analysis
of the complete downlinked dataset will be required to determine
the reality of this event.
Burst Advocate for this burst is N. J. Klingler (noelklin AT umbc.edu).
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: 42289
SUBJECT: GRB 251014B: Swift-XRT observations
DATE: 25/10/15 14:43:08 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
S. Lanava (PSU), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), K.L. Page (U. Leicester),
A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), S. Campana
(INAF-OAB), A. Melandri (INAF-OAR), S. Dichiara (PSU), J.A. Kennea
(PSU) and P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT
team:
Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of the Fermi/GBM,
Swift/BAT-GUANO-detected burst GRB 251014B, collecting 4.5 ks of
Photon Counting (PC) mode data between T0+49.9 ks and T0+73.1 ks.
Three X-ray sources, of which two (Source 2 and Source 4) are
uncatalogued, have been detected within the estimated 3-sigma
Swift/BAT-GUANO 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 2:
RA (J2000.0): 14.5787 = 00h 58m 18.89s
Dec (J2000.0): -35.5678 = -35d 34' 04.2"
Error: 7.3 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.)
Count-rate: (2.66 [+1.09, -0.87])e-3 ct s^-1
Distance: 66 arcsec from Fermi/GBM position.
Flux: (6.0 [+2.5, -2.0])e-14 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (observed, 0.3-10 keV)
Source 3:
RA (J2000.0): 14.6936 = 00h 58m 46.46s
Dec (J2000.0): -35.5767 = -35d 34' 36.2"
Error: 7.9 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.)
Count-rate: (1.52 [+0.90, -0.66])e-3 ct s^-1
Distance: 287 arcsec from Fermi/GBM position.
Source 3 matches the position of the quasar [VV98] J005846.6-353444.
Source 4:
RA (J2000.0): 14.6178 = 00h 58m 28.28s
Dec (J2000.0): -35.5331 = -35d 31' 59.2"
Error: 6.2 arcsec (radius, 90% conf.)
Count-rate: (1.87 [+0.98, -0.75])e-3 ct s^-1
Distance: 181 arcsec from Fermi/GBM position.
Flux: (6.5 [+3.4, -2.6])e-14 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (observed, 0.3-10 keV)
Source 4 is close to the 2MASS source J00582790-3531563 (5.4").
Another uncatalogued source (Source 1) was also detected, however this
was too far from the GRB position to be the afterglow.
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/00021863.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42288
SUBJECT: GRB 251014B: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
DATE: 25/10/15 14:32:04 GMT
FROM: Alice Breeveld at MSSL-UCL <a.breeveld(a)ucl.ac.uk>
A.A. Breeveld (UCL-MSSL) and N. J. Klingler (GSFC/UMBC/CRESSTII) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 251014B
49976 s after the Swift-BAT/GUANO trigger (Ronchini et al., GCN 42263).
No new optical afterglow is detected in the initial UVOT exposures. Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system (Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the initial exposures binned is:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
white 49976 73120 7974 >23.0
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.014 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42287
SUBJECT: GRB 251014B: VLT/FORS2 Optical Observation
DATE: 25/10/15 13:01:17 GMT
FROM: Roberto Ricci at INAF-IRA <ricci(a)ira.inaf.it>
Muskan Yadav (U Rome), Yu-Han Yang (U Rome), Roberto Ricci (U Rome), Niccolò Passaleva (U Rome), Rosa Becerra (U Rome), Eleonora Troja (U Rome), Lei Hu (Upenn) report on behalf of the ERC BHianca team:
We observed the Swift-BAT/GUANO (Ronchini et al., GCN 42263) field of GRB 251014B detected by Fermi-GBM (trigger number 782110046) with the FORS2 imager on the ESO VLT UT1 (Antu). Observations started on Oct 15th, 2025 at 05:22 UT (24.6 hours after the trigger) and were carried out in the R filter with an average airmass of ~1.06 and exposure time of 20 minutes.
Image subtraction against the SkyMapper Southern Survey (SMSS) Fourth Data Release (DR4) catalog (Onken et., 2024) shows no new uncataloged sources down to a 3-sigma limiting magnitude of ~24 AB mag. Several fainter sources are visible within the XRT localization of source #2 (Evans et al., GCN 42265) within the BAT localization, however they match catalogued counterparts in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) catalogue (DR2; Abbott et al. 2021) and, without a deeper template image, we cannot assess their variability.
We thank the staff at the VLT for the rapid execution of these observations.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42286
SUBJECT: GRB 251014D: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
DATE: 25/10/15 12:45:11 GMT
FROM: Alice Breeveld at MSSL-UCL <a.breeveld(a)ucl.ac.uk>
A.A. Breeveld (UCL-MSSL) and N. J. Klingler (GSFC/UMBC/CRESSTII) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 251014D 160 s after the BAT trigger (Klingler et al., GCN Circ. 42274).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Page et al., GCN Circ. 42284)is detected in the initial UVOT exposures.
Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system (Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the first finding chart (FC) exposure and subsequent exposures are:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
white_FC 160 310 147 >20.7
white 160 4287 344 >20.9
v 4498 4697 197 >19.2
b 3882 5439 317 >19.9
u 318 5312 204 >19.8
w1 4907 5107 197 >19.7
m2 4702 4902 197 >19.6
w2 4293 4493 197 >19.4
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.020 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42285
SUBJECT: GRB 251014D: BOOTES-6/DPRT optical upper limit
DATE: 25/10/15 11:12:43 GMT
FROM: Alberto Castro-Tirado at Inst.de Astro. de Andalucia <ajct(a)iaa.es>
S. Guziy, I. Perez-Garcia, E. Fernandez-Garcia, M.D. Caballero-Garcia, R. Sanchez-Ramirez, S.-Y. Wu and A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC, Granada), P. J. Meintjes and H. J. van Heerden (UFS, South Africa), A. Martin-Carrillo and L. Hanlon (UCD, Ireland), M. Gritsevich (Univ. of Helsinki), M. Jelinek (ASU-CAS), A. Kumar (ARIES) and C. J. Perez del Pulgar (UMA, Malaga), on behalf of a larger collaboration, report:
Following the detection of GRB 251014D by Swift/BAT (Klingler et al., GCNC 42272), the BOOTES-6/DPRT 0.6m robotic telescope at Boyden Observatory in Maselspoort (South Africa) responded to this event starting on Oct 14, 23:03 UT (~ 1.1 h after trigger) with 120s clear-filter images. No new source is detected within the Swift/XRT X-ray afterglow error box (Page et al., GCNC 42284) up to magnitude 18.3 using Gaia DR3 Gmag magnitude as reference. Further images were gathered, resulting on an upper limit of 21.0 (a coadd of 1200s on the aggregate, 1.6 post burst, at 23:30 UT).
We thank the staff at Boyden Observatory for their excellent support.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42284
SUBJECT: GRB 251014D: Swift-XRT afterglow detection
DATE: 25/10/15 10:20:16 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
K.L. Page (U. Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), S. Campana
(INAF-OAB), A. Melandri (INAF-OAR), T. Sbarrato (INAF-OAB), S. Dichiara
(PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), D.N. Burrows (PSU) and P.A. Evans (U.
Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of GRB 251014D. We
searched for X-ray sources in 2.9 ks of Photon Counting (PC) mode
data. The total exposure at the position of the afterglow (see below)
is 5.0 ks, obtained between T0+159.4 s and T0+22.3 ks.
An uncatalogued X-ray source is detected within the estimated 3-sigma
Swift-BAT error region (296 arcsec) and is fading with >3-sigma
significance, and is therefore likely the GRB afterglow. Using 1351 s
of PC mode data and 3 UVOT images, we find an enhanced XRT position
(using the XRT-UVOT alignment and matching UVOT field sources to the
USNO-B1 catalogue):
RA, Dec = 323.92080, -41.85533 which is equivalent to:
RA (J2000): 21h 35m 40.99s
Dec(J2000): -41d 51' 19.2"
with an uncertainty of 3.4 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence).
The light curve can be modelled with a power-law decay with a decay
index of alpha=1.71 (+0.12, -0.11).
A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.64 (+/-0.06). The
best-fitting absorption column is 9.7 (+1.9, -1.8) x 10^20 cm^-2, in
excess of the Galactic value of 2.1 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Willingale et al.
2013). The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion
factor deduced from this spectrum is 4.1 x 10^-11 (4.6 x 10^-11) erg
cm^-2 count^-1.
A summary of the WT-mode spectrum is thus:
Total column: 9.7 (+1.9, -1.8) x 10^20 cm^-2
Galactic foreground: 2.1 x 10^20 cm^-2
Excess significance: 6.8 sigma
Photon index: 1.64 (+/-0.06)
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
https://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/01404126.
The results of the full analysis of the XRT observations are available
at https://www.swift.ac.uk/ToO_GRBs/01404126.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42283
SUBJECT: GRB 251013C: MAO/AZT-22 optical observations
DATE: 25/10/15 09:38:38 GMT
FROM: Yodgor Rajabov at UBAI <rajabov(a)astrin.uz>
B.Abidkhanov, Y. Rajabov, O. Burkhonov, S. Ehgamberdiev, Y. Tillayev (UBAI), A. Shaymanov (Maidanak Observatory/UBAI) report on behalf of UBAI team.
We observed the field of the GRB 251013C (Rakotondrainibe et al., GCN Circ. 42222) with the 1.5-m at Maidanak Observatory telescope AZT-22 equipped with the 4kx4k CCD SNUCAM camera (Im et al., 2010).
The OT (Palmerio et al., GCN Circ. 42223; Perez-Garcia et al., GCN Circ. 42225; Konno et al., GCN Circ. 42226; Martin-Carrillo et al., GCN Circ. 42227; Masi et al., GCN Circ. 42228; Palmerio et al., GCN Circ. 42229; Moskvitin et al., GCN Circ. 42230; Gompertz et al., GCN Circ. 42231; Lipunov et al., GCN Circ. 42235; Garnavich et al., GCN Circ. 42240; Watson et al., GCN Circ. 42241; Lopez-Camara et al., GCN Circ. 42242; Zhang et al., GCN Circ. 42248; Brosio et al., GCN Circ. 42251; Reguitti et al., GCN Circ. 42253; Quintana-Ansaldo et al., Circ. GCN 42254; Maksut et al., GCN Circ. 42256; Ghosh et al., GCN Circ. 42261; Quadri et al., GCN Circ. 42262; Adami et al. GCN Circ. 42266; Peretto et al., GCN Circ. 42267; Ruocco et al., GCN Circ. 42269; Calapai, GCN Circ. 42275; Adami et al. GCN Circ. 42276; and Globus et all GCN 42279 ) is clearly detected in the individual and stacked frames.
Preliminary photometry is as follows:
Date UTstart Exptime t-T0 Filter OT Err. UL Site/Telescope
(nxs) (mid, days)
2025-10-14 17:34:48 6x300 0.99659 R 20.96 0.04 23.10 MAO/AZT-22
All the data have been reduced by a single data processing pipeline, STDPipe (Karpov et al., 2022). Images obtained in Johnson Cousins filters were calibrated using the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog. The data has not corrected for the Galactic extinction.
Maidanak astronomical observatory (MAO) is an observational facility of the Ulugh Beg Astronomical Institute (UBAI), Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences (http://maidanak.uz/).
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 42282
SUBJECT: GRB 251011B: SVOM/VT optical upper limit
DATE: 25/10/15 07:42:44 GMT
FROM: Yinuo Ma <mayn(a)bao.ac.cn>
Y. N. Ma, H. L. Li, Z. H. Yao, L. P. Xin, Y. L. Qiu, C. Wu, X. H. Han, Y. Xu, J. Wang, P. P. Zhang, W. J. Xie, Y. J. Xiao, H. B. Cai, L. Lan, J. S. Deng, J. Y. Wei, D. H. Zhao (NAOC), J. Palmerio (CEA), Y. H. Cheng (YNU), Y. Wang (PMO) report on behalf of the SVOM/VT team.
SVOM performed a Target of Opportunity observation of GRB 251011B detected by Swift/BAT, Fermi/GBM, and SVOM/GRM (D'Ai et al., GCN 42197; Fermi GBM team, GCN 42196; Evans et al., GCN 42201; Mukherjee et al., GCN 42204; Sbarufatti et al., GCN 42205; Zao et al., GCN 42206). SVOM/VT began observing the field at 2025-10-11 09:06:00 UTC, 1.961 hours after T0, in the VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm) channels simultaneously.
No uncatalogued sources, compared to Legacy Survey, were detected in our single or stacked images within the error box provided by Swift/XRT position (D'Ai et al., GCN 42197; Evans et al., GCN 42201), the three sigma limits are:
mid-time | exposure time | band | upper limit (AB)
----------|-----------------|-------|-----------------
2.3 h | 44*50 sec | VT_B | > 23.2 mag
2.3 h | 41*50 sec | VT_R | > 23.3 mag
Our results are consistent with MASTER (Balanutsa et al., GCN 42203) and Swift/UVOT (Siegel & D'Ai, GCN 42209).
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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