TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 41966
SUBJECT: GRB 250922B: SVOM/GRM observation
DATE: 25/09/24 14:10:14 GMT
FROM: Chenwei Wang at IHEP <cwwang(a)ihep.ac.cn>
SVOM/GRM team: Chen-Wei Wang. Wen-Jun Tan, Yue Huang, Shi-Jie Zheng, Shao-Lin Xiong, Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP)
SVOM/ECLAIRs team: Stéphane Schanne (CEA)
Report on behalf of the SVOM team:
SVOM/GRM was triggered on-ground by a burst GRB 250922B at 2025-09-22T21:13:25.900 UTC (T0), which is also detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM Team, GCN#41944).
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 0.07 +0.05/-0.03 s in the 15-5000 keV band.
The SVOM/GRM light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/svgrb250922B.png
In addition, the position of this burst, as determined by Fermi/GBM (RA= 48.7, DEC= 30.7, GCN#41944), is located at about 52 degrees from the SVOM optical axis, which is just outside the ECLAIRs field of view.
With this localization, the time-averaged spectrum from T0-0.2 to T0+0.1 s is best fitted by a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -1.15 +0.12/-0.15 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 1060 +110/-460 keV. The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (4.38 +0.55/-0.53)E-07 erg/cm^2. The 'Amati' relation of GRB 250922B is shown at:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/svgrb250922B_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: Chen-Wei Wang (IHEP)(cwwang(a)ihep.ac.cn)
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 41965
SUBJECT: GRB 250920C: TRT optical observation
DATE: 25/09/24 13:37:17 GMT
FROM: Zipei Zhu at NAOC <zpzhu(a)nao.cas.cn>
Z.P. Zhu (NAOC), K. Noysena, K. Chanchaiworawit, S. Tinyanont (NARIT), S.Y. Fu (HUST), L.B. He, X. Liu, J. An, S.Q. Jiang, D. Xu (NAOC) report on behalf of a large collaboration:
We observed the field of GRB 250920C (Fermi GBM team, GCN 41903; Gupta et al., GCN 41904; Mailyan & Meegan, GCN 41917; Gupta et al., GCN 41924; Wang et al., GCN 41929; Panteleeva et al., GCN 41957 ), using the 0.7-m telescope of the Thai Robotic Telescope network (TRT), located at New South Wales, Australia (SBO). Observations started at 18:21:14 UTC on 2025-09-20, i.e., ~ 2.9 hours after the Swift/BAT trigger and a series of frames in the R band were obtained.
The optical afterglow (Wortley et al., GCN 41907; Strausbaugh et al., GCN 41911; Ghosh et al., GCN 41913; Kuin et al., GCN 41920; Mohan et al., GCN 41925; Sanchez-Ramirez et al., GCN 41928; Guiffreda et al., GCN 41943; de Ugarte Postigo et al., GCN 41951; de Wet et al., GCN 41952; Izzo et al., GCN 41955; Zheng & Filippenko, GCN 41956; ) was clearly detected in our stacked R-band frame with a brightness of 18.87 +/- 0.02, calibrated with Pan-STARRS DR2 catalog and not corrected for Galactic extinction.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 41963
SUBJECT: GRB 250924A: COLIBRÍ optical observations
DATE: 25/09/24 12:35:04 GMT
FROM: Benjamin Schneider at MIT <bschn(a)mit.edu>
Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Fredd Alvarez (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Dalya Akl (NYUAD), Sarah Antier (OCA), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), 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) and Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM):
We imaged the field of the Swift GRB 250924A (Siegel et al., GCN Circ. 41959) using the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2025-09-24 08:33:51 to 09:46:24 UTC (from 15 to 88 minutes after the trigger) and obtained images in the g, r, i, z and y filters.
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.
We detect the optical counterpart reported by source Siegel et al., GCN Circ. 41959 and Becerra et al., GCN Circ. 41960 at:
RA(J2000) = 3:27:29.71 = 51.8738 degrees
Dec(J2000) = +74:39:33.7 = +74.6594 degrees
with an uncertainty of 0.5 arcsec.
The preliminary magnitudes derived for that source are:
Start (UT) | mid T0+T (s) | Band | Exp | Mag | Error
--------------------|---------------|------|------|------|------
2025-09-24T09:01:29 | 2853 | g | 3x60 | 20.12 | 0.05
2025-09-24T08:33:51 | 1054 | r | 3x60 | 18.90 | 0.04
2025-09-24T09:03:50 | 2994 | i | 3x60 | 19.38 | 0.05
2025-09-24T08:33:51 | 1054 | z | 3x60 | 18.39 | 0.05
2025-09-24T09:02:40 | 3963 | y | 16x60 | 19.26 | 0.06
From subsequent r-band images obtained between 0.26 and 2.21 hr after the burst, we measure a temporal decay slope of alpha = 0.6 +/- 0.1.
Further observations are ongoing.
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: 41962
SUBJECT: Swift GRB 250924A: Global MASTER-Net observations report
DATE: 25/09/24 12:04:41 GMT
FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov(a)xray.sai.msu.ru>
V.Lipunov, E.Gorbovskoy, A.Kuznetsov, K.Zhirkov, I.Panchenko, N.Tiurina, P.Balanutsa, V.Topolev, D.Vlasenko,
G.Antipov, A.Sankovich, Yu.Tselik, Ya.Kechin, V.Senik, A.Chasovnikov, K.Labsina, I. Gorbunov (Lomonosov MSU),
O.Gress, N.Budnev (ISU),
C.Francile, F. Podesta, R.Podesta, E. Gonzalez (Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (OAFA),
A. Tlatov, D. Dormidontov (Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory),
A.Sosnovskij (CrAO),
A. Gabovich, V.Yurkov (Blagoveschensk Educational StateUniversity),
D.Buckley (SAAO),
R.Rebolo (The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias),
L.Carrasco, J.R.Valdes, V.Chavushyan, V.M.Patino Alvarez, J.Martinez,
A.R.Corella, L.H.Rodriguez (INAOE, Guillermo Haro Astrophysics Observatory)
MASTER-Tunka robotic telescope (Global MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru, Lipunov et al., 2010, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2010, 30L) located in Russia (Applied Physics Institute, Irkutsk State University) was pointed to the Swift GRB 250924A ( M. H. Siegel et al., GCN 41959) errorbox 13196 sec after notice time and 13280 sec after trigger time at 2025-09-24 11:59:49 UT, with upper limit up to 16.2 mag. Observations started at twilight. The observations began at zenith distance = 49 deg. The sun altitude is -10.0 deg.
The galactic latitude b = 15 deg., longitude l = 133 deg.
Real time updated cover map and OT discovered available here:
https://master.sai.msu.ru/site/master2/observ.php?id=2998975
We obtain a following upper limits.
Tmid-T0 | Site |Filt.| Expt. | Limit| Comment
_________|_____________________|_____|_______|______|________
13310 | MASTER-Tunka | C | 60 | 16.2 |
13310 | MASTER- | C | 60 | 16.2 | Coadd
Filter C is a clear (unfiltred) band.
The observation and reduction will continue.
The message may be cited.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 41961
SUBJECT: GRB 250919A / EP250919a: further LCO optical observation
DATE: 25/09/24 11:30:34 GMT
FROM: SVOM_group <svomgroup(a)bao.ac.cn>
D. Turpin (CEA/Irfu), A. Saccardi (CEA/Irfu), J. T. Palmerio (CEA/Irfu), Z. Q. Wang (GXU), Y. F. Liang (PMO), report on behalf of the SVOM mission team:
We re-observed the field of GRB 250919A / EP250919a (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 41874; Liang et al., GCN 41879; Wang et al., GCN 41882; Holzmann Airasca et al., GCN 41884; Waratkar et al., GCN 41888; Cheung et al., GCN 41891; Wang et al. GCN 41900; Frederiks et al. GCN 41905) with the LCO 1m telescope at Siding Spring Observatory equipped with the Sinistro instrument.
We obtained 3x200 s exposures in the SDSS r filter. The optical counterpart (Li et al., GCN 41877; Levan et al., GCN 41883; Oates et al., GCN 41886; Lipunov et al., GCN 41893; Ma et al. GCN 41894, Saccardi et al., GCN 41906) is still clearly detected in our subtracted image (using the Legacy Survey DR10 image template) with the following magnitude (calibrated against the SkyMApper DR4 catalogued stars, not corrected for Galactic extinction):
r = 20.67 +/- 0.08 (AB), at a mid-time of 4.47 days after the trigger.
Compared to our first epoch (Saccardi et al., GCN 41906), the afterglow is fading as a power law decay with alpha ~ 1.1 with no evidence of any late break so far.
Further observations are planned.
This project is funded by the SVOM collaboration.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 41960
SUBJECT: GRB 250924A: DDOTI Detection of the Optical Counterpart
DATE: 25/09/24 09:00:57 GMT
FROM: Rosa L. Becerra at Tor Vergata, Roma <rosa.becerra(a)roma2.infn.it>
Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Sahil Atri (U Roma), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Camila Angulo Valdez (UNAM), Nat Butler (ASU), Simone Dichiara (Penn State University), Tsvetelina Dimitrova (ASU), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC/UMD), William H. Lee (UNAM), Océlotl López (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM) and Eleonora Troja (U Roma) report:
We observed the field of GRB 250924A detected by Swift (Siegel et al., GCN Circ. 41959) with the DDOTI/OAN wide-field imager at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on Sierra San Pedro Mártir (http://ddoti.astroscu.unam.mx) on the night of 2025-09-24 UTC.
DDOTI observed the Swift/UVOT position (Siegel et al., GCN Circ. 41959) from 08:35 UTC to 08:40 UTC (from T+17.3 to T+ 22.1 min after the trigger), obtaining a total exposure of 4 minutes.
By comparing our observations with the USNO-B1 and Pan-STARRS PS1 DR2 catalogs, we detect an uncatalogued source with a preliminary AB magnitude of:
w = 19.47 +/- 0.05.
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra of San Pedro Mártir.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 41959
SUBJECT: GRB 250924A: Swift detection of a burst with an optical counterpart
DATE: 25/09/24 08:35:33 GMT
FROM: K.L. Page at U Leicester <klp5(a)leicester.ac.uk>
M. H. Siegel (PSU), J. J. DeLaunay (PSU), R. Gupta (NASA GSFC),
S. Lanava (PSU), K. L. Page (U Leicester) and D. M. Palmer (LANL)
report on behalf of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Team:
At 08:18:29 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and
located GRB 250924A (trigger=1351790). Swift slewed immediately to the burst.
The BAT on-board calculated location is
RA, Dec 51.865, +74.652 which is
RA(J2000) = 03h 27m 28s
Dec(J2000) = +74d 39' 07"
with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including
systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve showed a complex
structure with a duration of about 30 sec. The peak count rate
was ~1000 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~17 sec after the trigger.
The XRT began observing the field at 08:21:32.8 UT, 183.6 seconds after
the BAT trigger. Using promptly downlinked data we find a bright,
fading, uncatalogued X-ray source with an enhanced position: RA, Dec
51.87141, 74.65894 which is equivalent to:
RA(J2000) = 03h 27m 29.14s
Dec(J2000) = +74d 39' 32.2"
with an uncertainty of 2.7 arcseconds (radius, 90% containment). This
location is 25 arcseconds from the BAT onboard position, within the BAT
error circle. This position may be improved as more data are received;
the latest position is available at https://www.swift.ac.uk/sper.
A power-law fit to a spectrum formed from promptly downlinked event
data gives a column density consistent with the Galactic value of 2.77
x 10^21 cm^-2 (Willingale et al. 2013).
The initial flux in the 2.5 s image was 1.03e-09 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (0.2-10
keV).
UVOT took a finding chart exposure of 150 seconds with the White filter
starting 192 seconds after the BAT trigger. There is a candidate afterglow in
the rapidly available 2.7'x2.7' sub-image at
RA(J2000) = 03:27:29.62 = 51.87340
DEC(J2000) = +74:39:34.0 = 74.65945
with a 90%-confidence error radius of about 0.62 arc sec. This position is 1.6
arc sec. from the center of the XRT error circle. The estimated magnitude is
17.74 with a 1-sigma error of about 0.14. No correction has been made for the
expected extinction corresponding to E(B-V) of 0.316.
Burst Advocate for this burst is M. H. Siegel (siegel AT swift.psu.edu).
Please contact the BA by email if you require additional information
regarding Swift followup of this burst. In extremely urgent cases, after
trying the Burst Advocate, you can contact the Swift PI by phone (see
Swift TOO web site for information: http://www.swift.psu.edu/)
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 41958
SUBJECT: GRB 250920B: AbAO optical upper limits
DATE: 25/09/23 21:32:13 GMT
FROM: Nicolai Pankov at HSE, IKI RAS <colinsergesen(a)gmail.com>
N. Pankov (HSE, IKI), A. Pozanenko (IKI), A. Moskvitin (SAO RAS), R. Ya. Inasaridze (AbAO) report on behalf of GRB-IKI-FuN:
We observed the field of a long GRB 250920B detected by Fermi/GBM (The Fermi GBM team GCN 41897), Swift (Gupta et. al, GCN 41898), with the AS-32 0.7m telescope of AbAO. We obtained two series of images in the R band on epochs 2025-09-22 and 2025-09-23 (~2.3 and ~3.3 days since trigger, respectively). The optical afterglow initially detected by Swift/UVOT (Gupta et. al, GCN 41898) and further observed by (WU et. al, GCN 41908; Hall et. al, GCN 41914; Pankov et. al, GCN 41931; Reguitti et. al, GCN 41932; Moskvitin et. al, GCN 41948; Pankov et. al, GCN 41953) is not detected in the stacked images of both epochs. Preliminary upper limits are as follows:
Date UTstart Exptime t-T0 Filter OT Err. UL
(nxs) (mid, days) (3sigma)
2025-09-22 16:09:15 20x2+97x30 2.32458 R n/d n/d 20.3
2025-09-23 16:04:34 153*30 3.33076 R n/d n/d 20.3
The photometry was calibrated against nearby PS1 DR2 stars (R-mags obtained via Lupton 2005 transformations) and not corrected for the Galactic extinction.
Ref. stars
PS1 DR2 (Lupton 2005)
RA Dec R R_err
187.24325 47.82521 15.134 0.007
187.41433 47.78151 14.974 0.008
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 41957
SUBJECT: Konus-Wind detection of GRB 250920C
DATE: 25/09/23 19:12:38 GMT
FROM: Valentina Panteleeva at Ioffe Institute <panteleevav228(a)gmail.com>
V. Panteleeva, D. Frederiks, A. Lysenko, A. Ridnaia, D. Svinkin,
A. Tsvetkova, M. Ulanov, and T. Cline,
on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report:
The long-duration GRB 250920C (Fermi-GBM detection:
The Fermi GBM team, GCN 41903; Mailyan & Meegan, GCN 41917;
Swift-BAT detection: Gupta et al., GCN 41904; Gupta et al., GCN 41924;
SVOM-GRM observaion: Wang et al., GCN 41929)
triggered Konus-Wind at T0=55519.312 s UT (15:25:19.312).
The burst light curve shows a multipeaked structure
which starts at ~T0-0.4 s and has a total duration of ~41 s.
The emission is seen up to ~2 MeV.
The Konus-Wind light curve of this GRB is available at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB250920_T55519/
As observed by Konus-Wind, the burst
had the total fluence of 2.91(-0.21,+0.29)x10^-5 erg/cm2,
and the 64-ms peak flux, measured from T0+25.904 s,
of 8.27(-0.78,+0.78)x10^-6 erg/cm2/s
(both in the 20 keV - 10 MeV energy range).
The time-averaged spectrum of the burst
(measured from T0 to T0+41.216 s)
is best fit in the 20 keV - 10 MeV range
by the GRB (Band) model with the following parameters:
the low-energy photon index alpha = -1.22(-0.07,+0.09),
the high energy photon index beta = -3.19(-6.81,+0.51),
the peak energy Ep = 160(-12,+9) keV
(chi2 = 104/97 dof).
The spectrum near the maximum count rate
(measured from T0+24.832 to T0+33.024 s)
is best fit in the 20 keV - 10 MeV range
by a power law with exponential cutoff model:
dN/dE ~ (E^alpha)*exp(-E*(2+alpha)/Ep)
with alpha = -1.14(-0.07,+0.07)
and Ep = 220(-14,+16) keV (chi2 = 96/81 dof).
Fitting by a GRB (Band) model yields the same alpha and Ep,
and an upper limit on the high energy photon index: beta < -3.15
(chi2 = 97/80 dof).
Assuming the redshift z=1.399 (Sanchez-Ramirez et al., GCN 41928;
Izzo et al., GCN 41955)
and a standard cosmology with H_0 = 67.3 km/s/Mpc, Omega_M = 0.315,
and Omega_Lambda = 0.685 (Planck Collaboration, 2014),
we estimate the following rest-frame parameters:
the isotropic energy release E_iso is 1.54(-0.11,+0.16)x10^53 erg,
the peak luminosity L_iso is 1.05(-0.10,+0.10)x10^53 erg/s,
the rest-frame peak energy of the time-averaged spectrum
Ep,i,z is 383(-30,+22) keV and the spectrum near the maximum count rate
Ep,p,z is 528(-33,+38) keV.
With the obtained estimates, GRB 250920C is inside 68% prediction bands for
both the 'Amati' and the 'Yonetoku' relations derived for the sample of >300 long
KW GRBs with known redshifts (Tsvetkova et al., 2017; Tsvetkova et al., 2021),
see http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB250920_T55519/GRB250920C_rest_frame.pdf
All the quoted errors are at the 68% confidence level.
All the quoted values are preliminary.
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