TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 43101
SUBJECT: GRB 251208C: GECAM-B observation of a likely long burst
DATE: 25/12/15 01:08:35 GMT
FROM: Xinghao Luo at SVOM/GRN <2952704891(a)qq.com>
Xing-Hao Luo, Chen-Wei Wang, Shao-Lin Xiong (IHEP) report on behalf of GECAM team:
GECAM-B was triggered on-ground by GRB 251214A, at 2025-12-14T00:11:15.200 UTC (denoted as T0), which is also detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN #43085).
According to the GECAM-B light curves in about 70-6000 keV, this burst mainly consists of multiple pulses with a duration (T90) of 5.0 +1.0/-2.5s.
The GECAM-B light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/gecambgrb251214A.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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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 43100
SUBJECT: GRB 251214B: 1.3m DFOT optical detection
DATE: 25/12/14 20:36:58 GMT
FROM: ANSHIKA GUPTA at ARIES <anshika05180(a)gmail.com>
Anshika Gupta, Dhruv Jain, Pankaj Pawar, Debalina Kar, and Kuntal Misra (ARIES) report:
We observed the field of GRB 251214B detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN 43088) and Swift/BAT (Eyles-Ferris et al. 2025, GCN 43089) with the 1.3m Devasthal Fast Optical Telescope (DFOT), located at the Devasthal Observatory of the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), India. The observations were started on 2025-12-14 at 12:59:37 UT, i.e., ~ 3.95 hours after the Fermi/GBM trigger. We have taken multiple frames with an exposure time of 300s in the I filter. We stacked the images after the alignment. We
detect an optical afterglow in our stacked image within the error box of Swift/UVOT (Eyles-Ferris et al. 2025, GCN 43089). We obtain the following preliminary magnitude in the stacked image:
Date Start_UT T_start-T0 (hour) Filter Exp time (s) Magnitude
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2025-12-14 12:59:37 ~3.95 I 300s*18 20.03 +/-0.03
The optical detection of the burst is consistent with Eyles-Ferris et al. 2025 (GCN 43089); Lipunov et al. 2025 (GCN 43091); Kang et al. 2025 (GCN 43093); Gress et al. 2025 (GCN 43095); and Fu et al. 2025 (GCN 43097).
The magnitude is not corrected for the Galactic extinction in the direction of the burst.
Photometric calibration is performed using the standard stars from the USNO-B1.0 catalogue.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 43098
SUBJECT: GRB 251214B: Enhanced Swift-XRT position
DATE: 25/12/14 17:09:40 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 1446 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 1 UVOT
images for GRB 251214B, 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 = 330.21069, -9.16291 which is equivalent
to:
RA (J2000): 22h 00m 50.57s
Dec (J2000): -09d 09' 46.5"
with an uncertainty of 2.1 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence).
This position may be improved as more data are received. The latest
position can be viewed at https://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: 43097
SUBJECT: GRB 251214B: Xinglong-2.16m optical observation
DATE: 25/12/14 13:15:50 GMT
FROM: syfu(a)nao.cas.cn
S.Y. Fu(HUST), D. Xu, Y.N. Zhu, P.L. Du, J.J. Jin, Z. Fan, X. Liu, L.B. He, J. An, S.Q. Jiang, Z.P. Zhu, J.J. Jia(NAOC)
We observed the field of GRB 251214B detected by Swift (Eyles-Ferris et al., GCN 43089) using the Xinglong-2.16m telescope equipped with the BFOSC camera. Observations started at 10:26:38 UT on 2025-12-14 (i.e., 1.41 h after the trigger), and a series of r- / g-band frames have been obtained.
The optical afterglow (Eyles-Ferris et al., GCN 43089; Kang et al., GCN 43093; Gress et al., GCN 43095) was clearly detected in our stacked frame with a magnitude of r = 19.40 +- 0.03 at a mid-time of 1.53 hr and g = 20.63 +- 0.09 at a mid-time of 1.88 hr, respectively, calibrated with Pan-STARRS1 DR2 catalog and not corrected for Galactic extinction.
We thank the staff at Xinglong observatory for their excellent support.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 43095
SUBJECT: GRB 251214B : MASTER optical afterglow detection
DATE: 25/12/14 12:55:36 GMT
FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov(a)xray.sai.msu.ru>
O.A.Gress, N.M.Budnev (ISU),
V.M.Lipunov, P.Balanutsa, I.Panchenko, A.Kuznetsov, E.Gorbovskoy, G.Antipov,
N. Tiurina, Ya.Kechin,A.Chasovnikov, D.Vlasenko, V.Shumkov, I.Ionov, Yu.Tselik(Lomonosov MSU, SAI, Moscow),
R.Mirgazov, A.Diachok, O.Ershova (Irkutsk State University),
R. Podesta, C.Francile, F. Podesta, E. Gonzalez (OAFA, San JuanUni.,Argentina);
D.Buckley (SAAO),
A. Sosnovskij (CrAO RAS),
A. Tlatov, D. Dormidontov (Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory),
A. Gabovich, V.Yurkov (Blagoveschensk Educational StateUniversity),
L.Carrasco, J.R.Valdes, V.Chavushyan, V.M.Patino, J.Martinez, A.R.Corella,
L.H.Rodriguez (INAOE, Guillermo Haro Astrophysic Observatory, Mexico)
V.M.Pillet, R.Rebolo Lopez (The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias,Spain)
MASTER OT J220050.55-090945.8 detection
MASTER-Tunka robotic telescope of MASTER Global Robotic Net (Lipunov et al. [1-4], http://observ.pereplet.ru ),
started Fermi (GCN 43088) and Swift (GCN 43089) GRB 251214B error-box observations
after sunset at 2025-12-14 10:20:46 UT (Lipunov et al. GCN 43091, cover map https://master.sai.msu.ru/site/master2/event.php?id=3070779 )
MASTER auto-detection system found optical afterglow at summary images
MASTER OT J220050.55-090945.8 , discovered by Swift (Eyles-Ferris et al. GCN 430089) and also observed by SVOM (Zhe Kang et al. GCN 43093)
with unfiltered m_OT=19.5m at 2025-12-14 10:49:16UT.
There is SDSS galaxy (poss.host) in 0.067" in VIZIER database with z_phot=0.6634
Observation and reduction will continue.
[1] Lipunov et al., 2010, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2010, 30L
[2] Lipunov et al. 2022, Universe, Vol. 8(5), id.271
[3] Lipunov et a. 2019, ARep, vol.63, 293
[4] Lipunov V., Kornilov V., Gorbovskoy E., Tiurina N., Kuznetsov A. 2023,
Astronomical Robotic Networks and Operative Multichanel Astrophysics,Lomonosov MSU PRESS, 591pp.
http://www.pereplet.ru/lipunov/625.html#625
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 43093
SUBJECT: GRB 251214B: SVOM/C-GFT optical observations
DATE: 25/12/14 11:59:55 GMT
FROM: SVOM_group <svomgroup(a)bao.ac.cn>
Zhe Kang (CHO), Chao WU (NAOC), Liping Xin(NAOC), Xuhui Han(NAOC), Pinpin Zhang (NAOC), Xiaomeng Lu (NAOC), Zhenwei Li (CHO), You Lv (CHO), Ruosong Zhang (NAOC), Yujie Xiao(NAOC), Yulei Qiu(NAOC), Jing Wang (NAOC), Jinsong Deng(NAOC), Lei Huang(NAOC), Jianyan Wei (NAOC),
report on behalf of the SVOM/C-GFT team:
We observed the field of GRB 251214B detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN 43088) and Swift/BAT (Eyles-Ferris et al., GCN 43089) with LATIOS on SVOM/C-GFT. Observations started at 2025-12-14T09:12:24 UTC, ~10.12 min after the trigger.
The optical counterpart (Eyles-Ferris et al., GCN 43089) was clearly detected in our stacked images of band g, r , and i.
The magnitudes are:
|[date-obs(mid-time)] | Mid_t-T0(min) | exposure time (s) | band | mag (AB) | mag_err|
|--------------------|--------------|-------------------|------|----------|--------|
|2025-12-14T09:12:42 | 10.75 | 3x10 | i | 16.56 |0.070|
|2025-12-14T09:26:55 | 24.64 | 5x30 | g | 18.56 |0.090|
|2025-12-14T09:40:03 | 37.77 | 6x30 | r | 18.33 |0.050|
The photometry was calibrated against UCAC4 catalogue and no correction for Galactic dust extinction was applied.
We thank the observation assistants Chun-Lei Guo and Yin-Huai Hao at Jilin observatory for their excellent support.
The Chinese Ground Follow-up Telescope (C-GFT) for the SVOM mission is located at Jilin Station, Changchun Observatory, National Astronomical Observatories, CAS. It features two instruments: (1) CATCH at the Cassegrain focus with a 21 arcsec x 21 arcsec FOV for simultaneous g/r/i-band imaging, and (2) LATIOS, a 4k x 4k CMOS camera at the prime focus with a 1.28 deg x 1.28 deg FOV that images in g, r, and i bands via filter switching.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 43092
SUBJECT: EP251214a: COLIBRÍ optical upper limit
DATE: 25/12/14 11:44:06 GMT
FROM: Stephane Basa at UAR Pytheas/OHP, LAM <stephane.basa(a)lam.fr>
Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), William H. Lee (UNAM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Dalya Akl (NYUAD), Sarah Antier (IJCLAB), Rosa L. Becerra (UNAM), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Nikos Mandarakas (LAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), Fredd Sánchez Álvarez (UNAM), and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM).
We imaged the field of EP251214a (Y.-H. I. Yin et al., GCN Circ. 43087) potentially associated with GRB 251214A reported by the Fermi GBM Team (GCN Circ. 43085), using the DDRAGO two-channel wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2025-12-14 at 09:12:10.65 to 09:56:13.15 UTC (from 6.75 to 7.49 hr after the trigger) and obtained 32 minutes of simultaneous exposure in the r and z filters.
The data were reduced, coadded and analyzed with the COLIBRÍ pipeline. The photometry was calibrated using nearby stars from the PanSTARRS DR1 catalog, is in the AB system, and was not corrected for Galactic extinction.
In the stacked image, we do not detect any new source at the WXT uncertainty region (Y.-H. I. Yin et al., GCN Circ. 43087) down to the following 5-sigma limit:
r > 23.1
z > 21.6
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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