TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40729
SUBJECT: Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor trigger 771596290/250614513 is not a GRB
DATE: 25/06/14 13:13:42 GMT
FROM: Cuán de Barra at UCD <cuan.debarra(a)ucdconnect.ie>
C.de Barra (University College Dublin) reports on behalf of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger 771596290/250614513 at 12:18:05.02 UT
on 14 June 2025, tentatively classified as a GRB, is in fact not due
to a GRB. This trigger is likely due to local particle activity."
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40727
SUBJECT: EP250612a / GRB 250612B: NOT optical observations of the afterglow candidate
DATE: 25/06/14 08:29:34 GMT
FROM: Antonio Martin-Carrillo at UCD,Space Science Group <antonio.martin-carrillo(a)ucd.ie>
A. de Ugarte Postigo (LAM), A. Martin-Carrillo (UCD), G. Corcoran (UCD), D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud), D. Xu (NAOC), L. Cotter (UCD), B. P. Gompertz (U. Birmingham), A. A. Djupvik (NOT), L. Fuglsang (NOT), report on behalf of a larger collaboration.
We observed the field of EP250612a / GRB 250612B detected by EP (Hua et al., GCN 40700) and Fermi (Fermi GBM team, GCN 40702), using the ALFOSC camera mounted on the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT). We obtained 12x100 s exposures in the SDSS r-band, starting at 23:19 UT on 2025-05-13 (1.952 days after the EP trigger).
At J2000 coordinates RA:15:18:36.667, DEC: -26:46:03.624 (error 0.5”), consistent with those by Li et al. (GCN 40716), the optical counterpart is detected in our stacked image with a preliminary magnitude:
r = 23.59 +/- 0.22 (AB).
The photometric calibration was performed using nearby stars from the Pan-STARRS catalog and the magnitudes are not corrected for Galactic extinction.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40726
SUBJECT: Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor trigger 771547945/250613953 is not a GRB
DATE: 25/06/14 00:57:35 GMT
FROM: sumanbala2210(a)gmail.com
S. Bala (USRA) reports on behalf of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger 771547945/250613953 at 22:52:20.54 UT
on 13 June 2025, tentatively classified as a GRB, is in fact not due
to a GRB. This trigger is likely due to local particles."
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40725
SUBJECT: Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor trigger 771541927/250613883 is not a GRB
DATE: 25/06/13 23:39:36 GMT
FROM: sumanbala2210(a)gmail.com
S. Bala (USRA) reports on behalf of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger 771541927/250613883 at 21:12:02.66 UT
on 13 June 2025, tentatively classified as a GRB, is in fact not due
to a GRB. This trigger is likely due to local particles.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40724
SUBJECT: sb25061218: SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) optical upper limits
DATE: 25/06/13 20:05:07 GMT
FROM: Alan Watson at UNAM <alan(a)astro.unam.mx>
Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Sarah Antier (OCA), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Fredd Alvarez (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Dalya Akl (AUS), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU) , Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM), and Jerome Rodriguez (CEA):
We imaged the field of the SVOM X-ray transient sb25061218 (Rodriguez et al., GCN 40712) using the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) telescope. We observed from 2025-06-13 06:18 to 10:34 UTC (from 9.7 to 14.0 hours after the trigger) and obtained 112 minutes of exposure in the i filter.
The data were reduced and coadded with the COLIBRÍ pipeline and analyzed with STDWeb/STDPipe (Karpov 2025). The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the Pan-STARRS DR1 catalog, is on the AB scale, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
In the stacked image, we do not detect any new source within the ECLAIRs source region reported by Rodriguez et al. (GCN 40712) to a formal 10-sigma limit of:
i > 23.0,
although we note that this is roughly the 50% completion limit of the Pan-STARRS DR1 catalog used to identify new sources.
We also performed image subtraction against Pan-STARRS DR2 at the position of the two XRT sources 1 and 2 reported by Evans et al. (GCN Circ. 40721) and see no evidence for optical counterparts to the same limit.
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir and the COLIBRÍ and DDRAGO engineering teams.
COLIBRÍ is an astronomical observatory developed and operated jointly by France (AMU, CNES and CNRS) and Mexico (UNAM and SECIHTI). It is located at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40723
SUBJECT: sb25061207: SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) optical upper limit
DATE: 25/06/13 19:16:15 GMT
FROM: Rosa L. Becerra at Tor Vergata, Roma <rosa.becerra(a)roma2.infn.it>
Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Fredd Alvarez (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Dalya Akl (AUS), Sarah Antier (OCA), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM), L. Zhang (IHEP), and Y. D. Hu (GXU):
We imaged the field of the SVOM/ECLAIR sb25061207 (Zhang et al., GCN Circ. 40697)
using the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the SVOM/COLIBRÍ (FM-GFT) telescope. We observed from 2025-06-13 03:49 to 05:52 UTC (from 17.36 to 19.41 hours after the trigger) and obtained 63 minutes of exposure in the r filter.
The data were reduced and coadded with the COLIBRÍ pipeline and analysed with STDWeb/STDPipe (Karpov 2025). The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
In the stacked image, we do not detect any new source at the EP/FXT position (Song et al., GCN Circ. 40718) or the optical candidate by SVOM/VT (Li et al. GCN Circ. 40717) down to the following 3-sigma limit:
r > 22.9
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir and the COLIBRÍ and DDRAGO engineering teams.
COLIBRÍ is an astronomical observatory developed and operated jointly by France (AMU, CNES, and CNRS) and Mexico (UNAM and SECIHTI). It is located at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40721
SUBJECT: sb25061218: Swift-XRT observations
DATE: 25/06/13 15:59:11 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), J.A. Kennea (PSU), E. Ambrosi (INAF-IASFPA) , A.P.
Beardmore (U. Leicester), M.G. Bernardini (INAF-OAB), R. Brivio (INAF-OAB), D.N.
Burrows (PSU), S. Campana (INAF-OAB), M. Capalbi (INAF-OAR), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA),
P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), V. D'Elia (SSDC & INAF-OAR), S. Dichiara (PSU), M. Ferro
(INAF-OAB), A. Melandri (INAF-OAR), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), K.L. Page (U.
Leicester), M. Perri (SSDC & INAF-OAR), C. Salvaggio (INAF-OAB), T. Sbarrato
(INAF-OAB), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB), M.A. Williams (PSU) report on behalf of the
Swift-XRT team:
Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of the SVOM/ECLAIRs-detected source
sb25061218, collecting 1.7 ks of Photon Counting (PC) mode data between T0+5.9 ks
and T0+7.7 ks after the trigger. We have detected 2 sources. These have been
automatically classified as follows:
* 0 likely counterparts
* 0 candidate counterparts
* 2 uncatalogued X-ray sources
* 0 known X-ray sources
Uncatalogued X-ray sources
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Source 1 (SWIFT J131445.9+544759):
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RA (J2000.0): 198.6914 = 13h 14m 45.94s
Dec (J2000.0): +54.7999 = +54d 47' 59.6"
Error: 11.2 (arcsec, radius, 90% confidence).
Detect flag: GOOD
Distance: 10.7 arcmin from the SVOM/ECLAIRs position.
Mean rate: (9.8 [+3.7, -3.0])e-3 ct s^-1
Mean flux: (4.8 [+1.8, -1.4])e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1
Peak rate: (9.8 [+3.7, -3.0])e-3 ct s^-1
Peak flux: (4.8 [+1.8, -1.4])e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1
ECF: 4.85e-11 erg cm^-2 ct^-1, assuming NH=2.15e+20 cm^-2,
gamma=1.50; determined from a spectral fit.
XMM UL: 2.1e-12 erg cm^-2 s^-1, (0.3-10 keV)
so the source is 10.0-sigma above this 3-sigma upper limit.
There is no evidence for fading.
A SIMBAD object `[VV2006] J131446.6+544804' is 6.6" away.
Source 2 (SWIFT J131433.3+544329):
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RA (J2000.0): 198.6390 = 13h 14m 33.36s
Dec (J2000.0): +54.7249 = +54d 43' 29.6"
Error: 9.7 (arcsec, radius, 90% confidence).
Detect flag: GOOD
Distance: 6.2 arcmin from the SVOM/ECLAIRs position.
Mean rate: (5.9 [+2.8, -2.1])e-3 ct s^-1
Mean flux: (1.01 [+0.47, -0.37])e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1
Peak rate: (5.9 [+2.8, -2.1])e-3 ct s^-1
Peak flux: (1.01 [+0.47, -0.37])e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1
ECF: 1.71e-11 erg cm^-2 ct^-1, assuming NH=1.76e+22 cm^-2,
gamma=7.90; determined from a spectral fit.
XMM UL: 2.4e-12 erg cm^-2 s^-1, (0.3-10 keV)
so the source is 54.2-sigma above this 3-sigma upper limit.
There is no evidence for fading.
A SIMBAD object `SDSS J131433.74+544331.8' is 3.9" away.
There is 1 2MASS object within the source's 3-sigma error radius.
All fluxes are 0.3-10 keV, observed. For all flux conversions and comparisons with
catalogues and upper limits from other missions, we assumed a power-law spectrum
with NH=3x10^20 cm^-2 and photon index (Gamma)=1.7 unless otherwise stated.
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/SVOM.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40720
SUBJECT: EP250612a: refined analysis of the EP-WXT and EP-FXT observations
DATE: 25/06/13 14:07:36 GMT
FROM: EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta(a)bao.ac.cn>
Y.L.Hua (PMO, CAS), J. W. Hu, T. Zhao, Y. J. Song ,W. Yuan(NAO, CAS) report on behalf of the Einstein Probe team:
The fast X-ray transient EP250612a was detected by the Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) on board the Einstein Probe (EP) mission (Hua et al., GCN 40700), and followed up by several optical and X-ray telescopes (Hua et al., GCN 40709, Li et al., GCN 40716). Refined analysis of the WXT data shows that the event started at T0=2025-06-12T12:27:38 (UTC) and lasted for about 35s before the interruption by the autonomous follow-up observation. The peak flux (0.5-4 keV) is estimated to be 3.9 x 10^-8 erg/s/cm^2. The averaged 0.5-4 keV spectrum can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a Galactic hydrogen column density of 4.3 x 10^21 cm^-2(-2.1, +2.4) and a photon index of 1.01 (-0.1, +0.1). The derived average unabsorbed 0.5-4 keV flux is 3.67 (-0.74, +1.10) x 10^-9 erg/s/cm^2.
The Follow-up X-ray Telescope (FXT) on board EP observed this source autonomously at 2025-06-12 12:30:08, about 3 minutes after T0, with an exposure time of 5858 seconds. Within the WXT error circle, on-ground analysis of the FXT data found an uncatalogued source at R.A. = 229.6534, DEC = -26.7673 (J2000) with an uncertainty of 10 arcsec (radius, 90% C.L. statistical and systematic), which is spatially consistent with the candidate X-ray counterpart detected by Fermi(Fermi GBM team., GCN 40702). The averaged 0.5-10 keV FXT spectrum can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a Galactic hydrogen column density of 1.49 x 10^21 cm^-2 and a photon index of 2.2 (-0.045, +0.045). The derived unabsorbed 0.5-10 keV flux is 1.37 (-0.03, +0.04) x 10^-11 erg/s/cm^2. The uncertainties are at the 90% confidence level for all the above parameters.
EP-FXT will continue monitoring the source in the forthcoming days. Multi-band follow-up observations are encouraged. The contact TA of EP250612a is Y.L.Hua, please contact him via the email ylhua(a)pmo.ac.cn if needed.
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).
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