TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39969
SUBJECT: GRB20250327B: 45th Parallel Observatory upper limit
DATE: 25/03/31 12:21:20 GMT
FROM: Vincenzo Della Vecchia <v.dellavecchia(a)uai.it>
Vincenzo della Vecchia (45th Parallel Observatory, Italy)
Member of:
AAVSO - American Association of Variable Star Observers
UAI - Unione Astrofili Italiani - Gamma Ray Burst Section
In a large collaboration with:
M.G. Dainotti (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan),
Y. Niino (Tokyo University, …
[View More]Institute of Astronomy),
K. Kalinowski (Aarhus University, Department of Physics and Astronomy),
report:
We imaged the field of GRB 250327B detected by SVOM (burst-id sb25032706, GCN Circular 39888) and Swift XRT (GCN circ. 39895) with the 0.25-m f/5.6 Ritchey-Chrétien telescope of the 45th Parallel Observatory (IAU code D43).
The observation started 22.33 hours after the GRB trigger, with acceptable sky transparency and seeing.
A series of 10 sec observations has been added for a total integration time of approximately 30 minutes.
Start T0+ End T0+ CR lim
22.33 hour 22.83 hour 19.5
CR as unfiltered with R zero point.
No optical counterpart has been detected at the position expected for the GRB.
Limit magnitudes are estimated with the Pan-STARSS DR1 catalogue and are not corrected for galactic dust extinction.
I am grateful to Ulisse Quadri (Bassano Bresciano Astronomical Observatory) for his support.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39968
SUBJECT: GRB 250328A: Swift/UVOT Detection
DATE: 25/03/31 10:23:48 GMT
FROM: noelklin(a)umbc.edu
N. Klingler (NASA-GSFC / UMBC / CRESST II), M.H. Siegel (PSU), and P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 250328A 3254 s after the SVOM trigger sb25032803 (GCN Circ. 39910). A source consistent with the XRT position (Evans et al., GCN Circ. 39967) is detected in …
[View More]the initial UVOT exposures and appears to be fading.
Preliminary detections and 3-sigma upper limits for the early exposures are:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag(AB)
u 3254 4993 1711 21.93 +/- 0.30
u 8758 8994 232 >21.01
u 177580 190264 970 >21.88
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.018 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).
This is an official data product of the Swift/UVOT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39967
SUBJECT: GRB 250328A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis
DATE: 25/03/31 09:33:00 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), A. Melandri
(INAF-OAR), T. Sbarrato (INAF-OAB), 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:
We have analysed 4.5 ks of …
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GRB 250328A (SVOM trigger sb25032803), from 3.2 ks to 190.2 ks after
the SVOM/ECLAIRs trigger. The data are entirely in Photon Counting
(PC) mode. We find an uncatalogued fading X-ray source. Using 1975 s of
PC mode data and 2 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 = 215.95979, +25.93224 which is equivalent to:
RA (J2000): 14h 23m 50.35s
Dec(J2000): +25d 55' 56.1"
with an uncertainty of 4.4 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence). This
position is 3.1 arcmin from the SVOM/ECLAIRs position and 1.6 arcsec
from the IR/optical afterglow candidate (Schneider et al., GCN 39919;
Schneider et al., GCN 39920; Li et al., GCN 39923; Li et al, GCN 39936;
Kumar et al., GCN 39946).
The light curve can be modelled with a power-law decay with a decay
index of alpha=0.67 (+0.24, -0.18).
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00019661.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39966
SUBJECT: Fermi-LAT gamma-ray observations of IceCube-250330A
DATE: 25/03/31 07:12:49 GMT
FROM: Leo Pfeiffer at University of Würzburg <pfeiffer.leo(a)gmail.com>
L. Pfeiffer (Univ. of Wuerzburg), S. Buson (DESY, Univ. of Wuerzburg), C. Bartolini (INFN Bari), 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 IC250330A neutrino event (GCN …
[View More]39943) 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 2025-03-30 08:31:06.33 UTC (T0) with J2000 position RA = 307.53 (+0.57, -0.47) deg, Decl. = 11.07 (+0.45, -0.47) deg 90% PSF containment. No cataloged gamma-ray sources are found within the 90% IC250330A localization error (The Fourth Fermi-LAT catalog, 4FGL-DR4, 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 (>5 sigma) new excess emission (> 100 MeV) within the IC250330A 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 <3.06e-10 ph cm^-2 s^-1 for ~16-years (2008-08-04 / T0), <1.85e-08(<1.06e-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 source, 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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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39965
SUBJECT: SVOM/sb25033102 is a false trigger
DATE: 25/03/31 07:00:53 GMT
FROM: SVOM_group <svomgroup(a)bao.ac.cn>
Yinuo MA, Chao WU, Donghua ZHAO, Wenjin XIE (NAOC), Hatsune GOTO (CEA, Kanazawa Univ) on behalf of the SVOM mission team.
The SVOM trigger sb25033102 (GCN Circular 39955) on 2025-03-31T02:04:18 UTC (Tb) is a false trigger, caused by the nearby known bright source SCO X-1, and does not correspond to a real transient.
We apologize for …
[View More]any confusion and inconvenience caused by this mistake.
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.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39964
SUBJECT: GRB 250330A: Fermi GBM Observation
DATE: 25/03/31 06:48:11 GMT
FROM: Utkarsh Pathak at IIT Bombay <utkarshpathak.07(a)gmail.com>
U. Pathak (IITB), R. Sonawane (IISER, TVM) and C. Meegan (UAH) report on behalf of
the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"At 06:07:38.42 UT on 30 March 2025, the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)
triggered and located GRB 250330A (trigger 765007663/250330255).
which was also detected by Swift-BAT (Cenko …
[View More]et al. 2025, GCN 39938).
The afterglow has been detected by Swift-XRT (Osborne et al. 2025, GCN 39947).
The Fermi GBM Final Localization (GCN 39944) is consistent with the Swift-BAT
and Swift-XRT positions (Page et al. 2025, GCN 39940).
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is 46 degrees.
The GBM light curve consists of a single emission episode with a duration
(T90) of about 4.8 s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum
from T0-0.6 to T0+6.53 s is best fit by
a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff.
The power law index is -0.9 +/- 0.1 and the cutoff energy,
parameterized as Epeak, is 95 +/- 8 keV.
The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(1.50 +/- 0.08)E-06 erg/cm^2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured
starting from T0+0.26 s in the 10-1000 keV band is 6.5 +/- 0.3 ph/s/cm^2.
A Band function fits the spectrum equally well
with Epeak= 86 +/- 10 keV, alpha = -0.8 +/- 0.2 and beta = -2.7 +/- 0.4.
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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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39963
SUBJECT: GRB 250331C: COLIBRÍ/DDRAGO optical upper limit
DATE: 25/03/31 06:24:32 GMT
FROM: damien dornic <damiendornic(a)gmail.com>
Damien Dornic (CPPM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Dalya Akl (AUS), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Sarah Antier (OCA), Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), …
[View More]Noémie Globus (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM) and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM) report:
We imaged the field of Swift/BAT GRB 250331C (Cenko et al., GCN Circ. 39959) with the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in Mexico.
We started observing at 2025-03-31 04:43:50 UTC (370 s after the trigger) and obtained a total of 720 s of exposure time in the i filter. The data were coadded with the COLIBRÍ pipeline and analyzed in STDWeb/STDPipe (Karpov 2025), with photometric calibration against Pan-STARRS DR1 and image subtraction against Pan-STARRS DR2. Our photometry is in the AB system and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
At the XRT localization (Evans et al. 39960), we do not find any optical counterpart to a 3-sigma limiting magnitude of:
i > 22.26
We warmly thank the COLIBRÍ and DDRAGO engineering teams and the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39962
SUBJECT: GRB 250331B: COLIBRÍ/DDRAGO optical upper limit
DATE: 25/03/31 06:21:34 GMT
FROM: damien dornic <damiendornic(a)gmail.com>
Damien Dornic (CPPM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Dalya Akl (AUS), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Sarah Antier (OCA), Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), …
[View More]Noémie Globus (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM) and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM) report:
We imaged the field of Swift/BAT GRB 250331B (Cenko et al., GCN Circ. 39958) with the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in Mexico.
We started observing at 2025-03-31 04:21:10 UTC (87 s after the trigger) and obtained a total of 100 s exposure in the i filter. The data were coadded with the COLIBRÍ pipeline and analyzed in STDWeb/STDPipe (Karpov 2025), with photometric calibration against Pan-STARRS DR1 and image subtraction against Pan-STARRS DR2. Our photometry is in the AB system and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
At the XRT localization, we do not find any optical counterpart to a 3-sigma limiting magnitude of:
i > 20.96
We warmly thank the COLIBRÍ and DDRAGO engineering teams and the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 39960
SUBJECT: GRB 250331C: Prompt enhanced Swift-XRT position
DATE: 25/03/31 05:45:04 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-XRT team:
Using 1.6 ks of promptly downlinked XRT event data for GRB 250331C, we
find an enhanced XRT position of the afterglow: RA, Dec: 80.95640,
33.06317 which is equivalent to:
RA (J2000) = 05 23 49.54
Dec (J2000) = +33 03 47.4
with an …
[View More]uncertainty of 1.9 arcseconds (radius, 90% confidence).
Analysis of the promptly available data is online at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/sper/1299967.
Position enhancement is described by Goad et al. (2007, A&A, 476, 1401)
and Evans et al. (2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177).
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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