TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 41134
SUBJECT: GRB 250713A : SVOM/ECLAIRs refined analysis
DATE: 25/07/22 11:09:53 GMT
FROM: SVOM_group <svomgroup(a)bao.ac.cn>
M. Brunet, L. Bouchet (IRAP), F. Cangemi (APC), P. Maggi (ObAS)
Using the event-by-event data downloaded through the X-band ground station, we report further analysis of ECLAIRs observations of the long GRB 250713A (SVOM burst-id sb25071320),
The burst that triggered ECLAIRs [onboard/ onground] (GCN #41078) consists of a single peak with a duration of at least 60s visible in the 4-60 keV energy band.
The time-averaged spectrum from T0-10s s to T0+32s (T0 = 2025-07-13T17:06:26) in the energy range 4-60 keV is best fitted by a black body model with kT = 4.91 +0.32/-0.30 keV . With this model, the total 4-120 keV fluence is 1.10 +0.07/-0.10 e-8 erg/cm^2.
A Broken Power-law also gives a decent fit with a photon index of 1.08 +0.16/-0.18 before the break, a break energy of 21.50 +3.41/-2.76 keV and a photon index of 3.23 +0.81/-0.53 after the break. In that case, the total 4-120 keV fluence is 1.25 +0.06/-0.18 e-8 erg/cm^2.
A preliminary time-resolved spectral analysis shows a decrease in the black body temperature from kT = 6.73 +0.72/-0.64 keV to kT =2.72 +0.45/-0.36 keV over the first 42 seconds of the burst duration. At the same time the source radius increases by a factor 4.3 +1.3/-1.7.
All the quoted errors are at the 68% confidence level.
We note that the calibration of SVOM/ECLAIRs is undergoing thus these results are preliminary.
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. ECLAIRs was developed jointly by CNES, CEA-IRFU, CNRS-IRAP, CNRS-APC.
The SVOM/ECLAIRs point of contact for this burst is: Marius Brunet (mbrunet at irap.omp.eu)
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 41133
SUBJECT: GRB 250717B: SVOM/GRM observation
DATE: 25/07/22 09:59:21 GMT
FROM: yzh807926(a)163.com
SVOM/GRM team: Zheng-hang Yu, Chen-Wei Wang, Shi-Jie Zheng, Yue Huang, Shao-Lin Xiong, Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP)
SVOM/ECLAIRs team: Sebastien Guillot(IRAP)
Report on behalf of the SVOM team:
SVOM/GRM was triggered by a burst GRB 250717B at 2025-07-17T13:44:23.100 UTC (T0), which is also detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM Team, GCN#41111) and Swift/BAT-GUANO (Samuele Ronchini et al. 2025, GCN#41110)
With the event-by-event data downloaded through the X-band ground station, the GRM light curve shows that this burst consists of a single pulse with a T90 of 4.5 +1.5/-2.0 s in the 15-5000 keV band.
The SVOM/GRM light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/svgrb250717B.png
In addition, the position of this burst, as determined by Fermi/GBM (RA,Dec = 44.1179, 26.3789, GCN#41110), is located at about 75 degrees from the SVOM optical axis, which is outside the ECLAIRs field of view.
With this localization, the time-averaged spectrum from T0-0.5 to T0+4.5 s is best fitted by a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -1.82 +0.11/-0.21 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 47 +23/-20 keV. The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (3.54 +0.40/-0.36)E-06 erg/cm^2.
The localization of GRB 250717B in the 'Amati' relation diagram is shown at:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/grb250717B_amati.png
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. GRM is developed by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of CAS.
The SVOM point of contact for this burst is: Zheng-hang Yu (IHEP)(zhyu(a)ihep.ac.cn)
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 41132
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250711q: Updated Sky localization
DATE: 25/07/21 21:59:28 GMT
FROM: rudall(a)caltech.edu
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:
We have conducted further offline analysis of the LIGO Hanford Observatory (H1), LIGO Livingston Observatory (L1), and Virgo Observatory (V1) data around the time of the compact binary merger (CBC) candidate S250711q (GCN Circular 41062). Parameter estimation has been performed using Bilby [1] and a new sky map, Bilby.offline1.multiorder.fits,0, distributed via GCN and SCiMMA notices, is available for retrieval from the GraceDB event page:
https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S250711q
For the Bilby.offline1.multiorder.fits,0 sky map, the 90% credible region is 2016 deg2. Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 4756 +/- 2023 Mpc (a posteriori mean +/- standard deviation).
For further information about analysis methodology and the contents of this alert, refer to the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Public Alerts User Guide https://emfollow.docs.ligo.org/.
[1] Ashton et al. ApJS 241, 27 (2019) doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ab06fc and Morisaki et al. PRD 108, 123040 (2023) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.108.123040
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 41131
SUBJECT: The SVOM alert sb25072103 is not due to a GRB, but to a new galactic transient SVOM J195836+32283.
DATE: 25/07/21 17:00:16 GMT
FROM: Diego Gotz at CEA <diego.gotz(a)cea.fr>
D. Götz, N. Dagoneau, A. Saccardi (CEA), D. Zhao, Y. Ma, L. Xin (NAOC), J.-L. Atteia (IRAP) on behalf of the SVOM collaboration report:
The SVOM alert sb25072103 (08:43:10 UTC) is not due to a GRB, but most probably to a new galactic transient source. The ECLAIRs alert was initially identified as a trigger from the known galactic High Mass X-ray Binary, 4U 1954+31. SVOM slewed to the source location, and, due to Earth occultation, MXT and VT could not observe the field right away.
As soon as MXT started the observation, about one hour later, at 09:32:37 UTC, its on board software detected an uncatalogued source in its field of view, not consistent with the position of 4U 1954+31. The MXT observation continued until 11:47:43 UTC.
Subsequent analysis of the entire MXT X-band data showed that the source was not fading and, on the contrary, increased its flux by a factor about two over the entire duration of the observation. In addition the source presents a thermal spectrum, compatible with a black body of temperature ~0.2 keV. Based on these properties and on its position in the galactic plane (l=69.03, b= 1.6) we can exclude that this alert is due to a GRB, and we propose to classify this source as a new galactic transient, SVOM J195836+32283.
The J2000 X-ray coordinates are:
R.A. = 19h 58m 36s
Dec. = +32° 28’ 20”
with a 90% c.l. error radius of 30 arc sec (18 arc sec of statistical error).
The MXT error region was in the VT field of view during the SVOM second orbit. A faint uncatalogued optical source was detected within the MXT error region in VT_R band with a brightness of 22.2+/-0.4 mag, compared to the PanSTARRS images at the following J2000 coordinates
R.A. = 19h 58m 36.29s
Dec. = +32° 28’ 25.7”
with an error of 0.5 arc sec.
The VT images were obtained between 11:11:09 and 11:42:49 UTC with an effective exposure time of 20x100 seconds. The VT magnitude is not corrected for the Galactic extinction on the line of sight.
This source lies at 6 arc seconds from the MXT position, and we suggest that it might be the counterpart of the X-ray source.
Follow-up observations at other wavelengths are encouraged.
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. SVOM/ECLAIRs was developed jointly by CNES, CEA-IRFU, CNRS-IRAP, CNRS-APC. SVOM/GRM was developed by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of CAS. SVOM/MXT was developed jointly by CNES, CEA-IRFU, CNRS-IJCLab, University of Leicester, MPE. SVOM/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: 41130
SUBJECT: GRB 250721A: Tiled Swift observations
DATE: 25/07/21 14:05:00 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 team:
Swift has initiated a series of observations, tiled on the sky, of the
MAXI GRB 250721A. Automated analysis of the XRT data will
be presented online at https://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/TILED_GRB00137
Any uncatalogued X-ray sources detected in this analysis will be
reported on this website and via GCN COUNTERPART notices. The probability of finding
serendipitous sources, unrelated to the MAXI event is high: any X-ray source
considered to be a probable afterglow candidate will be reported via a GCN Circular
after manual consideration.
Details of the XRT automated analysis methods are detailed in Evans et
al. (2007, A&A, 469, 379; 2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177 and 2014, ApJS, 210, 8).
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 41129
SUBJECT: GRB 250721A: MAXI/GSC detection
DATE: 25/07/21 13:31:42 GMT
FROM: Motoko Serino at Aoyama Gakuin U. <serino(a)phys.aoyama.ac.jp>
C. Kang (Ehime U.), M. Serino, Y. Kawakubo (AGU), H. Negoro (Nihon U.),
M. Nakajima, K. Takagi, H. Takahashi, K. Tatano, H. Nishio (Nihon U.),
T. Mihara, T. Tamagawa, N. Kawai, M. Matsuoka (RIKEN),
T. Sakamoto, S. Sugita, H. Hiramatsu, Y. Kondo, A. Yoshida (AGU),
Y. Tsuboi, H. Sugai, N. Nagashima (Chuo U.),
M. Shidatsu, Y. Niida, T. Nakamoto (Ehime U.),
I. Takahashi, Y. Yatsu (Science Tokyo),
S. Nakahira, S. Ueno, H. Tomida, M. Ishikawa, S. Ogawa, M. Kurihara (JAXA),
Y. Ueda, K. Fujiwara (Kyoto U.),
M. Yamauchi, M. Nishio, C. Hiraizumi (Miyazaki U.),
K. Yamaoka (Nagoya U.),
M. Sugizaki (Kanazawa U.),
W. Iwakiri (Chiba U.),
T. Kawamuro (Osaka U.),
S. Yamada (Tohoku U)
The MAXI/GSC nova alert system triggered a bright uncatalogued X-ray transient
source at 09:38:05 UT on July 21, 2025. Assuming that the source flux was constant
over the transit, we obtain the source position at
(R.A., Dec) = ( 82.805, -25.592) = (05 31 13, -25 35 31) (J2000)
with a statistical 90% C.L. elliptical error region with long and short radii of 0.37 deg
and 0.32 deg, respectively.
The roll angle of long axis from the north direction is 24.0 deg counterclockwise.
There is an additional systematic uncertainty of 0.1 deg (90% containment radius).
The X-ray flux averaged over the scan was 119 +- 23 mCrab
(4.0-10.0keV, 1 sigma error).
Without assumptions on the source constancy, we obtain a rectangular error
box for the transient source with the following corners:
(81.815, -25.748) deg = (05 27 15, -25 44 52) (J2000)
(82.171, -26.333) deg = (05 28 41, -26 19 58) (J2000)
(84.986, -24.908) deg = (05 39 56, -24 54 28) (J2000)
(84.621, -24.329) deg = (05 38 29, -24 19 44) (J2000)
There was no significant excess flux in the next transit at 11:10 UT with an upper limit of 20 mCrab.
We also note that a transient was detected by Fermi (GCN Circular #41128),
which is probably associated with the event.
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