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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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40639
SUBJECT: Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor trigger 770867684/250606080 is not a GRB
DATE: 25/06/06 04:37:18 GMT
FROM: oindabimukherjee(a)gmail.com
Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor trigger 770867684/250606080 is not a GRB
O. Mukherjee (USRA) reports on behalf of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger 770867684/250606080 at 01:54:39.00 UT
on 06 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: 40638
SUBJECT: Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor trigger 770867684/250606080 is not a GRB
DATE: 25/06/06 04:33:56 GMT
FROM: oindabimukherjee(a)gmail.com
Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor trigger 770867684/250606080 is not a GRB
O. Mukherjee (USRA) reports on behalf of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger 770867684/250606080 at 01:54:39.00 UT
on 06 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: 40638
SUBJECT: Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor trigger 770867684/250606080 is not a GRB
DATE: 25/06/06 04:33:56 GMT
FROM: oindabimukherjee(a)gmail.com
Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor trigger 770867684/250606080 is not a GRB
O. Mukherjee (USRA) reports on behalf of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger 770867684/250606080 at 01:54:39.00 UT
on 06 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: 40637
SUBJECT: GRB 250602A: GECAM detection
DATE: 25/06/06 04:33:43 GMT
FROM: zhengchao_astro(a)foxmail.com
Chao Zheng, Chen-Wei Wang, Yan-Qiu Zhang, Shao-Lin Xiong, Yue Huang (IHEP) report on behalf of GECAM team:
GECAM-A detected burst GRB 250602A at 2025-06-02T03:04:31.310 UTC (denoted as T0), which was also detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN #40602).
According to the GECAM-A light curves in about 70-6000 keV, this burst mainly consists of a single pulse with a duration (T90) of about 8.68 s.
The GECAM-A light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/gecamgrb250602A.png
Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) mission originally consists of two micro-satellites (GECAM-A and GECAM-B) launched in Dec. 2020. As the third member of GECAM constellation, GECAM-C was launched onboard SATech-01 experimental satellite in July 2022. GECAM mission is funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
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