TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40933
SUBJECT: GRB 250702F: Swift/UVOT Detection
DATE: 25/07/04 05:01:32 GMT
FROM: Mike Siegel at PSU/Swift MOC <mhs18(a)psu.edu>
M. H. Siegel (PSU) 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 250702F 97 s after the BAT trigger (Klingler et al., GCN Circ. 40894). A source consistent with the XRT position (Goad et al., GCN Circ. 40902) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures. The source is detected in all filters except for uvw2 and only marginally in uvm2, which would be consistent with the redshift reported by de Ugarte Postigo et al. (GCN Circ. 40901).
The preliminary UVOT position is:
RA (J2000) = 14:11:44.66 = 212.93610 (deg.)
Dec (J2000) = +16:44:55.1 = 16.74863 (deg.)
with an estimated uncertainty of 0.42 arc sec. (radius, 90% confidence).
Preliminary detections and 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system
(Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the early exposures are:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
white 97 247 147 15.86 +/- 0.02
v 5904 6104 197 18.39 +/- 0.14
b 3878 4077 197 18.42 +/- 0.09
u 309 515 202 15.04 +/- 0.03
m2 9609 10131 514 19.53 +/- 0.24
w2 5699 5899 197 >19.2
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.017 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40932
SUBJECT: GRB 250702A: CALET Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor detection
DATE: 25/07/04 04:55:55 GMT
FROM: Yuta Kawakubo at Aoyama Gakuin University <kawakubo(a)phys.aoyama.ac.jp>
K. Kobayashi (Waseda U), A. Yoshida, T. Sakamoto, S. Sugita,
Y. Kawakubo (AGU), K. Yamaoka (Nagoya U), S. Nakahira (JAXA),
Y. Asaoka (ICRR), S. Torii, Y. Akaike, (Waseda U), Y. Shimizu,
T. Tamura (Kanagawa U), N. Cannady (GSFC/UMBC), M. L. Cherry (LSU),
S. Ricciarini (U of Florence), P. S. Marrocchesi (U of Siena),
and the CALET collaboration:
The long GRB 250702A (Fermi GBM Final Real-time Localization: Fermi GBM team,
GCN Circ. 40881; BALROG localization: Preis et al., GCN Circ 40882; Fermi GBM
Detection: Malacaria et al., GCN Circ. 40887; GECAM-B detection: Wang et al.,
GCN Circ. 40992) triggered the CALET Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (CGBM) at
09:54:05.81 UTC on 2 July 2025
(https://cgbm.calet.jp/cgbm_trigger/flight/1435484973/index.html).
The burst signal was seen by all CGBM detectors.
The burst light curve shows a single pulse that starts
at T+1.5 sec, peaks at T+6.2 sec, and ends at T+14.4 sec.
The T90 and T50 durations measured by the SGM data are 10.5 +/- 0.6 sec
and 3.9 +/- 0.3 sec (40-1000 keV), respectively.
The ground-processed light curve is available at
https://cgbm.calet.jp/cgbm_trigger/ground/1435484973
The CALET data used in this analysis are provided by
the Waseda CALET Operation Center located at Waseda University.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40931
SUBJECT: Fermi GBM Analysis of GRB 250702B (formerly B,D,E); dissociation of C burst
DATE: 25/07/04 03:47:31 GMT
FROM: eliza.neights(a)gmail.com
E. Neights (GWU, NASA GSFC), O.J. Roberts (USRA, NASA MSFC), E. Burns (LSU), P. Veres (UAH), E. Bissaldi (Politecnico and INFN Bari) report on behalf of the Fermi-GBM Team:
On July 2, 2025, Fermi-GBM triggered four times on gamma-ray emission emanating from a similar localization of the sky (GCNs 40883, 40885, 40886, 40890, 40891), over an interval of 11.5 ks, believed likely to be from the same source. Konus-Wind observations (GCN 40914) provide further support that these triggers may be related to a similar origin, but with a combined duration of >15 ks. A combined GBM skymap was found to be spatially consistent with Swift-BAT GUANO detections of 250702D, C and E (GCN 40903). Emission from 250702E was found to be spatially and temporally coincident with Einstein Probe Transient, EP250702a (GCN 40906, 40917). While it is currently named with the phenomenological GRB convention, the physical origin is still uncertain.
Upon further investigation, the pulse which caused the GBM trigger labeled 250702C was from an unrelated short GRB. That is, emission from the short burst and the ultra-long 250702B are contemporaneous, but arise from inconsistent locations.
In light of this, spectral analysis was conducted for the three triggers of GRB 250702B, matched to their previous designations below. We observe photons in the BGO up to 1 MeV, with the majority of the photons occurring in the 50-300 keV range. The spectral analyses of these events are summarized below, which are fit about equally well with power law and Band function models:
GRB Name | Trigger Time/T0 (UT) | Interval (s) | Power Law Index | Fluence (erg/cm2)
250702E | 16:21:33.07 | T0-6.1 - T0+147.5 | -1.38 +/- 0.01 | (2.74 +/- 0.05)E-05
250702B | 13:56:05.77 | T0-30.7 - T0+26.6 | -1.34 +/- 0.01 | (1.24 +/- 0.03)E-05
250702D | 13:09:02.03 | T0-95.2 - T0+12.3 | -1.29 +/- 0.02 | (1.04 +/- 0.05)E-05
GRB Name | Trigger Time/T0 (UT) | Interval (s) | Band Alpha | Band Beta | Band Peak Energy (keV) | Fluence (erg/cm2)
250702E | 16:21:33.07 | T0-6.1 - T0+147.5 | -0.81 +/- 0.05 | -5.1 +/- 22.7 | 610 +/- 60 | (3.4 +/- 0.1)E-05
250702B | 13:56:05.77 | T0-30.7 - T0+26.6 | -0.8 +/- 0.1 | -1.52 +/- 0.04 | 400 +/- 200 | (1.38 +/- 0.05)E-05
250702D | 13:09:02.03 | T0-95.2 - T0+12.3 | -0.2 +/- 0.3 | -1.7 +/- 0.1 | 400 +/- 100 | (1.48 +/- 0.09)E-05
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40929
SUBJECT: GRBs 250702B,C,D,E / EP250702a: 2.2m CAHA optical upper limit
DATE: 25/07/04 02:24:14 GMT
FROM: I. Perez-Garcia at Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia <ipg(a)iaa.es>
I. Pérez-García, A. J. Castro-Tirado, M. D. Caballero-García, S. Guziy, R. Sánchez-Ramírez, S.-Y. Wu (IAA-CSIC Granada), G. García-Segura (Instituto de Astronomía de la UNAM, Ensenada), M. Gritsevich (Univ. of Helsinki), Y.-D. Hu (Guanxi Univ.), S. Góngora-García and J.-F.Agüí-Fernández (CAHA), on behalf of a larger collaboration, report:
We observed the location of EP250702a (Cheng et al., GCN 40906, 40917), associated with the four high-energy events GRB 250702B,C,D,E, all detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 40883, 40885, 40886, 40890), Swift/BAT (GUANO system; DeLaunay et al., GCN 40903) and Konus/Wind (Frederiks et al., GCN 40914), with all these events likely originating from the same astrophysical source (Neights et al., GCN 40891).
Using the 2.2m CAHA telescope in Spain (equipped with CAFOS), we obtained 60s exposures in the z-band, starting on 2025 July 3 at 23.99 UT (i.e. 34.1 hr after the first Fermi trigger, GRB 250702B). At the location of the UVOT-enhanced position provided by Swift/XRT (Kennea et al., GCN 40919) and the VLT nIR source reported by Martin-Carrillo et al. (GCN 40924), we do not detect an optical source on the co-added z-band (1980s total exposure time) down to z = 21.4 (3-sigma limiting magnitude), using the Pan-STARRS1 DR2 (Magnier et al. 2025) catalogue as reference.
We thank the staff at CAHA for their excellent support.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40928
SUBJECT: GRB 250702F: Swift-XRT refined Analysis
DATE: 25/07/04 00:28:33 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), V. D'Elia (SSDC & INAF-OAR), B. Sbarufatti
(INAF-OAB), C. Salvaggio (INAF-OAB), D.N. Burrows (PSU), M.A. Williams
(PSU), S. Dichiara (PSU), K.L. Page (U. Leicester) and P.A. Evans
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
We have analysed 5.2 ks of XRT data for GRB 250702F, from 94 s to 94.1
ks after the trigger. The data comprise 420 s in Windowed Timing (WT)
mode with the remainder in Photon Counting (PC) mode.
The late-time light curve (from T0+3.9 ks) can be modelled with a
power-law decay with a decay index of alpha=1.01 (+/-0.06).
A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index of 2.016 (+/-0.029). The
best-fitting absorption column is 3.5 (+/-0.5) x 10^21 cm^-2, at a
redshift of 1.52, in addition to the Galactic value of 1.3 x 10^20
cm^-2 (Willingale et al. 2013). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index
of 1.95 (+/-0.13) and a best-fitting absorption column of 2.1 (+2.1,
-1.9) x 10^21 cm^-2. The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV
flux conversion factor deduced from this spectrum is 3.3 x 10^-11 (3.7
x 10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1.
A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:
Galactic foreground: 1.3 x 10^20 cm^-2
Intrinsic column: 2.1 (+2.1, -1.9) x 10^21 cm^-2 at z=1.52
Photon index: 1.95 (+/-0.13)
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/01329888.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40927
SUBJECT: GRB 250702F: Fermi GBM Observation
DATE: 25/07/04 00:25:21 GMT
FROM: oindabimukherjee(a)gmail.com
O. Mukherjee (USRA) and C. Meegan (UAH) report on behalf of
the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"At 21:06:43.10 UT on 02 July 2025, the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)
triggered and located GRB 250702F (trigger 773183208/250702880).
which was also detected by Swift BAT (N. J. Klingler et al. 2025), GOTO (A. Kumar et al. 2025, GCN 40896), AKO (Mohammad Odeh et al. 2025, GCN 40925).
A spectroscopic redshift of z = 1.52 was reported by GTC/OSIRIS (A. de Ugarte Postigo et al. 2025, GCN 40901)
The Fermi GBM on-ground location is consistent with the Swift BAT position.
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is 43 degrees.
The GBM light curve consists of multiple pulses with a duration (T90)
of about 54 s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum
from T0-29 to T0+48 s is best fit by
a band function with alpha = -1.34 +/- 0.06 and beta = -1.78 +/- 0.09 and the cutoff energy,
parameterized as Epeak, is 403 +/- 148 keV.
The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(1.45 +/- 0.03)E-05 erg/cm^2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured
starting from T0+38 s in the 10-1000 keV band is 9.7 +/- 0.3 ph/s/cm^2.
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: 40926
SUBJECT: GRB 250702F: Leavitt Observatory optical observations
DATE: 25/07/03 18:42:20 GMT
FROM: leavittob(a)gmail.com
L. Moretti, E. Pavoni (Leavitt Observatory, Italy)
Members of:
GRB/UAI - Gamma Ray Burst Section of Unione Astrofili Italiani
ATA - Associazione Tuscolana di Astronomia
In a large collaboration with:
M.G. Dainotti (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Y. Niino (Tokyo University, Institute of Astronomy), K. Kalinowski (Aarhus University, Department of Physics and Astronomy), report:
We observed the field of GRB 250702F detected by Fermi-GBM (GCN 40892) and Swift/UVOT (Klingler et al., GCN 40894), using our Ritchey-Chrétien telescope (D=250 mm, F/D=8).
The observations began approximately 0.5 hours after the trigger, ending at 2025-07-02T23:59:57 UT, stacking a set of CCD images of 180 seconds each, with good weather conditions. All images were processed by a single data processing pipeline based on astropy package (Astropy Collaboration et al., 2022ApJ...935..167A).
The optical afterglow reported by Jelinek et al. (GCN 40895), Kumar et al. (GCN 40896), Lipunov et al. (GCN 40899), Martin-Carrillo et al. (GCN 40900), de Ugarte Postigo et al. (GCN 40901), Angulo et al. (GCN 40907), Becerra et al. (GCN 40911), Brivio et al. (GCN 40913), An et al. (GCN 40916), Dutton et al. (GCN 40921) was clearly detected at the following coordinates:
RA (J2000) = 14:11:44.65
Dec(J2000) = +16:44:54.59
with the following photometry:
Date UT at mid-exposure Exposure Filter Mag. Mag. err.
2025-07-02 21:38:43 UT 4x180s CR 17.33 +/-0.21
2025-07-02 21:52:08 UT 4x180s CR 17.72 +/-0.21
2025-07-02 22:05:47 UT 5x180s CR 17.96 +/-0.21
2025-07-02 22:19:44 UT 4x180s R 18.13 +/-0.25
2025-07-02 22:31:52 UT 4x180s R 17.80 +/-0.21
2025-07-02 22:44:01 UT 4x180s R 18.02 +/-0.25
2025-07-02 22:59:11 UT 5x180s R 18.30 +/-0.21
2025-07-02 23:17:29 UT 4x180s R 18.80 +/-0.25
2025-07-02 23:29:38 UT 4x180s R 19.00 +/-0.25
2025-07-02 23:47:50 UT 8x180s R 19.30 +/-0.21
CR magnitude is unfiltered with R zero point.
R is Rc filter in Johnson-Cousins system.
Magnitude was calibrated with the Pan-STARRS cat. and are derived using Lupton (2005) equations. Not corrected for galactic dust extinction.
This message may be cited.
Reference:
https://leavittobservatory.altervista.org
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40925
SUBJECT: GRB 250702F: AKO Optical Afterglow Detection
DATE: 25/07/03 18:36:05 GMT
FROM: Mohammad Odeh at Al Khatim Observatory M44 <mshodeh(a)gmail.com>
Mohammad Odeh (Al-Khatim Observatory, AKO, operated by the International
Astronomical Center in Abu Dhabi, UAE), and Nidhal Guessoum (American
University of Sharjah, UAE), report:
We observed the field of GRB 250702F detected by Swift/BAT (Klingler et al.,
GCN 40894) and Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 40892), using our 0.36m f/7.7
robotic telescope. The observation session began on 03 July 2025 at 17:04
UT, with a midpoint at 17:42 UT, approximately 20.6 hours after the trigger.
We obtained multiple 180-second exposures using the Ic filter. The optical
afterglow was marginally detected at:
R.A. (J2000): 14:11:44.6
Dec. (J2000): +16:44:55
Our detection is consistent with the results of (Jelinek et al., GCN 40895;
Kumar et al., GCN 40896; Lipunov et al., GCN 40899; Martin-Carrillo et al.,
GCN 40900; Angulo et al., GCN 40907; Becerra et al., GCN 40911; Brivio et
al., GCN 40913; An et al., GCN 40916; Dutton et al., GCN 40921).
The following observation was calculated using the Atlas catalogue as a
reference:
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ObsTime (mid), Exposure (sec), Filter, Mag
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2025-07-03T17:42:28Z, 26 x 180s (stacked), Ic, 19.5 +/- 0.4
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The magnitude is not corrected for galactic extinction.
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