TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40649
SUBJECT: The EP-WXT trigger 01709178244 is likely a flaring star
DATE: 25/06/08 05:41:59 GMT
FROM: EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta(a)bao.ac.cn>
D. F. Hu (PMO, CAS), Q. C. Liu (THU), B. B. Zhang (BNU), Y. Liu (NAO, CAS) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:
The EP-WXT trigger 01709178244 at the time of 2025-06-08T04:53:30 (UTC), is likely a stellar flare associated with Gaia DR3 6730332160799599744. The estimated flux of the flare is around 1.6 x 10^-10 erg/s/cm^2 in 0.5-4 keV, corresponding to an X-ray luminosity of around 3.3 x 10^32 erg/s.
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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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40647
SUBJECT: EP-WXT trigger 01709178069: confirmation of a stellar flare by BOOTES-6 & BOOTES-7
DATE: 25/06/07 11:28:27 GMT
FROM: I. Perez-Garcia at Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia <ipg(a)iaa.es>
I. Perez-Garcia, S.-Y. Wu, A. J. Castro-Tirado, E. J. Fernandez-Garcia, M.D. Caballero-Garcia, S. Guziy, G. Garcia-Segura, R. Sanchez-Ramirez (IAA-CSIC), Y.-D. Hu (INAF-OAB), C. Perez del Pulgar, A. Castellon, I. Carrasco (Univ. de Malaga), L. Hernandez-Garcia (Univ. de Valparaiso), M. Gritsevich (Univ. of Helsinki), D.-R. Xiong (Yunnan Observatories of CAS), B.-B. Zhang (Nanjing Univ.) and A. Maury (Space, San Pedro de Atacama), on behalf of a larger collaboration, report:
Following the detection of trigger 01709178069 by EP-WXT (Hu et al. GCN 40646), both the 0.6m robotic telescopes BOOTES-6/DPRT 0.6m at Boyden Observatory in Maselspoort (South Africa) and BOOTES-7 at San Pedro de Atacama (Chile) responded to the alert on June 7, 23:45 UT (i.e. 2 min after notification and 7 min after the detection). Within the reported EP-FXT error circle we find the star UCAC4 204-077663 decreasing 0.25 mag in brightness (clear filter) during a 30 min time interval. Subsequent observations using the g filter and starting on June 8, 00:23 we find a decrease in 0.7 mag during a 2 hour time interval, confirming the EP X-ray trigger due to a stellar flare.
We thank the staff at San Pedro de Atacama Celestial Observations and Boyden Observatory for their excellent support.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40646
SUBJECT: The EP-WXT trigger 01709178069 is likely a flaring star
DATE: 25/06/07 01:58:34 GMT
FROM: EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta(a)bao.ac.cn>
D. F. Hu, Y. Wang (PMO, CAS), H. Sun, W. D. Zhang (NAO, CAS) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:
The EP-WXT trigger 01709178069 at the time of 2025-06-06T23:38:19 (UTC), is likely a stellar flare associated with UCAC4 204-077663. The estimated flux of the flare is around 8 x 10^-11 erg/s/cm^2 in 0.5-4 keV, corresponding to an X-ray luminosity of around 1.1 x 10^32 erg/s.
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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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40645
SUBJECT: GRB 250605A: VT optical upper limit
DATE: 25/06/06 15:40:20 GMT
FROM: Huali Li at at NAOC, SVOM <lhl(a)nao.cas.cn>
L. P. Xin, Y. L. Qiu, H. L. Li, C. Wu, X. H. Han, J. Wang, Y. Xu, P. P. Zhang, Z. H. Yao, Y. N. Ma, W. J. Xie, Y. J. Xiao, H. B. Cai, L. Lan, J. S. Deng, J. Y. Wei (NAOC), J. Palmerio (CEA) report on behalf of the SVOM/VT team.
SVOM/VT conducted ToO follow-up observations of the GRB 250605A (Gupta et al., GCN 40633, Melandri et al., GCN 40644). The observation started on 2025-06-06T05:02:39 UT in VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm) channels simultaneously.
No uncatalogued sources are detected in single or stacked images within the Swift/XRT error box (Evans et al., GCN 40642) and the possible optical candidate reported by Gompertz et al. (GCN 40634). The 3 sigma limit magnitudes are derived as below:
Mid time | Band | Exposure Time | 3 sigma limit magnitude
11.28 hour VT_B 59*70 sec >23.6 mag
11.28 hour VT_R 59*70 sec >23.6 mag
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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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40645
SUBJECT: GRB 250605A: VT optical upper limit
DATE: 25/06/06 15:40:20 GMT
FROM: Huali Li at at NAOC, SVOM <lhl(a)nao.cas.cn>
L. P. Xin, Y. L. Qiu, H. L. Li, C. Wu, X. H. Han, J. Wang, Y. Xu, P. P. Zhang, Z. H. Yao, Y. N. Ma, W. J. Xie, Y. J. Xiao, H. B. Cai, L. Lan, J. S. Deng, J. Y. Wei (NAOC), J. Palmerio (CEA) report on behalf of the SVOM/VT team.
SVOM/VT conducted ToO follow-up observations of the GRB 250605A (Gupta et al., GCN 40633, Melandri et al., GCN 40644). The observation started on 2025-06-06T05:02:39 UT in VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm) channels simultaneously.
No uncatalogued sources are detected in single or stacked images within the Swift/XRT error box (Evans et al., GCN 40642) and the possible optical candidate reported by Gompertz et al. (GCN 40634). The 3 sigma limit magnitudes are derived as below:
Mid time | Band | Exposure Time | 3 sigma limit magnitude
11.28 hour VT_B 59*70 sec >23.6 mag
11.28 hour VT_R 59*70 sec >23.6 mag
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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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40644
SUBJECT: GRB 250605A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis
DATE: 25/06/06 11:02:50 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
A. Melandri (INAF-OAR), T. Sbarrato (INAF-OAB), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB),
M.A. Williams (PSU), S. Dichiara (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), J.P. Osborne
(U. Leicester), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester)
and P.A. Evans report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
We have analysed 7.0 ks of XRT data for GRB 250605A, from 90 s to 50.2
ks after the trigger. The data comprise 149 s in Windowed Timing (WT)
mode (the first 6 s were taken while Swift was slewing) with the
remainder in Photon Counting (PC) mode.
The light curve can be modelled with a series of power-law decays. The
initial decay index is alpha=4.36 (+0.19, -0.15). At T+164 s the decay
flattens to an alpha of 3.19 (+0.29, -0.32) before breaking again at
T+326 s to a final decay with index alpha=0.79 (+/-0.07).
A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index of 2.12 (+0.06, -0.05). The
best-fitting absorption column is 2.59 (+0.20, -0.19) x 10^21 cm^-2,
in excess of the Galactic value of 4.3 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Willingale et al.
2013). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index of 2.10 (+0.13, -0.12)
and a best-fitting absorption column of 2.9 (+/-0.5) x 10^21 cm^-2. The
counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor
deduced from this spectrum is 3.6 x 10^-11 (5.5 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2
count^-1.
A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:
Total column: 2.9 (+/-0.5) x 10^21 cm^-2
Galactic foreground: 4.3 x 10^20 cm^-2
Excess significance: 8.7 sigma
Photon index: 2.10 (+0.13, -0.12)
If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of
0.79, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 0.085 count s^-1,
corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 3.0 x
10^-12 (4.7 x 10^-12) erg cm^-2 s^-1.
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/01321323.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40643
SUBJECT: EP/WXT 01709177873: GOTO observations confirm stellar variability
DATE: 25/06/06 10:10:51 GMT
FROM: Amit Kumar at Royal Holloway - UoL/ U of Warwick, UK <amitkundu515(a)gmail.com>
A. Kumar, D. O'Neill, G. Ramsay, B. P. Gompertz, R. Starling, K. Ackley, M. J. Dyer, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, B. Godson, D. Steeghs, D. K. Galloway, V. Dhillon, P. O'Brien, K. Noysena, R. Kotak, R. P. Breton, L. K. Nuttall, and J. Casares report on behalf of the GOTO collaboration:
We report on optical observations with the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO; Steeghs et al. 2022, Dyer et al. 2024) in response to the EP/WXT alert 01709177873. Targeted observations were performed beginning at 2025-06-05 21:27:07 UT (+2.59 hr post trigger) and continued through to 2025-06-05 23:43:10 UT (+4.86 hr post trigger). Each observation consisted of 4x90 s exposures in the GOTO L-band (400-700 nm).
Images were processed immediately after acquisition using the GOTO pipeline. Difference imaging was performed using deeper template observations. Source candidates were initially filtered using a classifier (Killestein et al. 2021) and cross-matched against a variety of contextual and minor planet catalogs. Human vetting was carried out in real time on any candidates that passed the above checks.
No new transients associated with the alert were identified, except for one source within the localisation region: RX J1553.0+4457, a low mass star + white binary at RA = 15:53:04.8, Dec = +44:57:44.6. This source exhibited significant variability, brightening by ~0.6 mag relative to the last pre-trigger image taken on 2025-05-30 at 00:18:22 UT (6.77 days pre-trigger), reaching 13.70 ± 0.01 mag in the first post-trigger image at 2025-06-05 21:27:07 UT (+2.59 hr). It then faded to 14.10 ± 0.01 mag by the final observation at 2025-06-05 23:43:10 UT (+4.86 hr post-trigger). All the reported magnitudes are in the GOTO L-band and the AB system.
Magnitudes were calibrated using ATLAS-REFCAT2 (Tonry et al. 2018) and are not corrected for Galactic extinction.
GOTO (https://goto-observatory.org) is a network of telescopes that is principally funded by the STFC and operated at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, Spain, and Siding Spring Observatory in NSW, Australia, on behalf of a consortium including the University of Warwick, Monash University, Armagh Observatory & Planetarium, the University of Leicester, the University of Sheffield, the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT), the University of Turku, the University of Portsmouth, the University of Manchester and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC).
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40642
SUBJECT: GRB 250605A: Enhanced Swift-XRT position
DATE: 25/06/06 08:44:00 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
P.A. Evans, M.R. Goad, J.P. Osborne and A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester)
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team.
Using 3740 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 7 UVOT
images for GRB 250605A, we find an astrometrically corrected X-ray
position (using the XRT-UVOT alignment and matching UVOT field sources
to the USNO-B1 catalogue): RA, Dec = 166.95715, -19.78841 which is equivalent
to:
RA (J2000): 11h 07m 49.72s
Dec (J2000): -19d 47' 18.3"
with an uncertainty of 2.0 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence).
This position may be improved as more data are received. The latest
position can be viewed at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_positions. Position
enhancement is described by Goad et al. (2007, A&A, 476, 1401) and Evans
et al. (2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177).
This circular was automatically generated, and is an official product of the
Swift-XRT team.
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