TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40667
SUBJECT: GRB 250605A: Swift-BAT refined analysis
DATE: 25/06/10 13:23:05 GMT
FROM: Mike Moss at NASA GSFC <mikejmoss3(a)gmail.com>
R. Gupta (GSFC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
H. A. Krimm (NSF), S. Laha (GSFC/UMBC),
A. Y. Lien (U Tampa), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC),
M. J. Moss (GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL),
T. Parsotan (GSFC), D. Sadaula (GSFC/UMBC),
T. Sakamoto (AGU) (i.e. the Swift-BAT team):
Using the data set from T-239 to T+963 sec from the recent telemetry downlink,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 250605A (trigger #1321323)
(Gupta, et al., GCN Circ. 40633). The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 166.963, -19.786 deg which is
RA(J2000) = 11h 07m 51.1s
Dec(J2000) = -19d 47' 10.5"
with an uncertainty of 1.2 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 35%.
The BAT light curve shows a complex light curve with multiple emission episodes:
a period of very dim extended emission between ~T0-100 sec to T0-10 leading up to
one strong pulse between T0-10 sec to T0+10 sec and followed by a dim broad pulse
between T0+40 sec to ~T0+125 sec. T90 (15-350 keV) is 176.05 +- 5.15 sec (estimated
error including systematics).
The time-averaged spectrum from T-100.30 to T+126.69 sec is best fit by a power law
with an exponential cutoff. This fit gives a photon index 1.50 +- 0.22,
and Epeak of 76.7 +- 27.6 keV (chi squared 71.54 for 56 d.o.f.). For this
model the total fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 1.2 +- 0.0 x 10^-05 erg/cm2
and the 1-sec peak flux measured from T-0.00 sec in the 15-150 keV band is
6.1 +- 0.4 ph/cm2/sec. A fit to a simple power law gives a photon index
of 1.83 +- 0.05 (chi squared 79.05 for 57 d.o.f.). All the quoted errors
are at the 90% confidence level.
The results of the batgrbproduct analysis are available at
https://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/results/batgrbcat/BAT_refined_circular/1321323
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40666
SUBJECT: EP250610a: SVOM/VT optical upper limit
DATE: 25/06/10 12:55:24 GMT
FROM: Huali Li at at NAOC, SVOM <lhl(a)nao.cas.cn>
Z. H. Yao, L. P. Xin, Y. L. Qiu, H. L. Li, C. Wu, X. H. Han, J. Wang, Y. Xu, P. P. Zhang, Y. N. Ma, W. J. Xie, Y. J. Xiao, H. B. Cai, J. S. Deng, J. Y. Wei (NAOC), J. Palmerio (CEA),Y. J. Zhang (THU), T. Y. Lian, H. Q. Cheng, C. C. Jin (NAO, CAS), Lin Lan (NAOC), Run-Chao Chen (NJU), Chen-Wei Wang, Wen-Jun Tan (IHEP) report on behalf of the SVOM and EP mission team:
SVOM performed a Target of Opportunity observation of EP250610a detected by EP/WXT (Zhang et al., GCN 40660). SVOM/VT began observing the field at 2025-06-10 06:16:38 UTC, 1.85 hours after the trigger, in the VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm) channels simultaneously.
No credible candidate was detected in our single or stacked images within the errorbox of EP/FXT (Zhang et al., GCN 40660) or Swift/XRT (Evans et al., GCN 40662 ), the three sigma limits are:
[date-obs|mid-time] | exposure time (s) | band | upper limit (AB)
----------- --------|-------------------|------|-----------------
2025-06-10T07:29:10 | 76×70 | VT_B | 23.93
2025-06-10T07:29:10 | 76×70 | VT_R | 23.45
The upper limit is consistent with reports (Schneider et al., GCN 40661, Brivio et al., GCN 40665).
Deeper or redder follow-ups are encouraged to investigate the nature of the transient。
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA, China), National Centre 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. 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: 40665
SUBJECT: EP250610a: REM optical/NIR observations
DATE: 25/06/10 12:20:35 GMT
FROM: Riccardo Brivio at INAF-OAB <riccardo.brivio(a)inaf.it>
R. Brivio, M. Ferro, P. D'Avanzo, S. Covino, D. Fugazza (INAF-OAB) report on behalf of the REM team:
We observed the field of EP 250610a detected by EP/WXT (Zhang et al., GCN 40660) with the REM 60 cm robotic telescope located at the ESO observatory of La Silla (Chile). The observations were carried in the g, r, i, z, and H bands, started on 2025 June 10 at 05:02:09 UT (i.e. 36 min after the burst), and lasted for about 1 hour.
From preliminary inspection, we do not detect any possible counterpart at the position of the candidate detected by Swift/XRT (source 1, Evans et al., GCN 40662) down to the following 3sigma limits:
r > 18.7 (AB; calibrated against the Pan-STARRS catalogue),
at a mid-time of 66 min after the trigger;
H > 16.6 (Vega; calibrated against the 2MASS catalogue),
at a mid-time of 39 min after the trigger.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40664
SUBJECT: GRB 250609A: Fermi GBM Observation
DATE: 25/06/10 09:59:45 GMT
FROM: Christian Malacaria at INAF-OAR <cmalacaria.astro(a)gmail.com>
C. Malacaria (ISSI) and C. Meegan (UAH) report on behalf of
the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Team:
"At 08:47:18.61 UT on 09 June 2025, the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM)
triggered and located GRB 250609A (trigger 771151643/250609366).
which was also detected by Swift/BAT-GUANO (DeLaunay et al. 2025, GCN 40658).
The Fermi GBM on-ground location was reported by the Fermi-GBM team in GCN 40652.
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is 81 degrees.
The GBM light curve consists of a single emission episode with a duration (T90)
of about 1 s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum
from T0-5.5 to T0+1.7 s is best fit by
a simple power law function with index -1.3 +/- 0.1.
The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(4.5 +/- 0.9)E-07 erg/cm^2. The 64-ms peak photon flux measured
starting from T0-0.13 s in the 10-1000 keV band is 4 +/- 1 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: 40663
SUBJECT: GRBAlpha reentry on June 9, 2025
DATE: 25/06/10 09:37:37 GMT
FROM: Andras Pal at Konkoly Observatory <apal(a)szofi.net>
A. Pal (Konkoly Observatory), N. Werner (Masaryk U.), L. Meszaros (Konkoly Observatory), J. Ripa (Masaryk U.), M. Ohno (Hiroshima U.), M. Dafcikova (Masaryk U.), H. Takahashi (Hiroshima U.), B. Csak (Konkoly Observatory), N. Husarikova, F. Munz , M. Topinka, M. Duriskova, M. Kolar, L. Szakszonova, J.-P. Breuer, F. Hroch (Masaryk U.), T. Urbanec, M. Kasal, A. Povalac (Brno U. of Technology), J. Hudec, J. Kapus, M. Frajt (Spacemanic s.r.o), R. Laszlo, M. Koleda (Needronix s.r.o), M. Smelko, P. Hanak, P. Lipovsky (Technical U. of Kosice), G. Galgoczi (Wigner Research Center/Eotvos U.), Y. Uchida, H. Poon, H. Matake (Hiroshima U.), N. Uchida (ISAS/JAXA), T. Bozoki (Eotvos U.), G. Dalya (Eotvos U.), T. Enoto (Kyoto U.), Zs. Frei (Eotvos U.), G. Friss (Eotvos U.), Y. Fukazawa, K. Hirose (Hiroshima U.), S. Hisadomi (Nagoya U.), Y. Ichinohe (Rikkyo U.), K. Kapas (Eotvos U.), L. L. Kiss (Konkoly Observatory), T. Mizuno (Hiroshima U.), K. Nakazawa (Nagoya U.), H. Odaka (Univ of Tokyo), J. Takatsy (Eotvos U.), K. Torigoe (Hiroshima U.), N. Kogiso, M. Yoneyama (Osaka Metropolitan U.), M. Moritaki (U. Tokyo), T. Kano (U. Michigan) -- the GRBAlpha collaboration.
After more than 4 years of scientific operations, on June 9, 2025, GRBAlpha, an 1U CubeSat reentered the Earth's atmosphere. GRBAlpha was the first GRB detecting CubeSat of this size and the smallest astrophysical space observatory (Pál et al. 2023, A&A, 677, A40). With 127 GRBs and a similar number of solar flare detections it successfully demonstrated that monitoring of gamma-ray transients can be effectively performed by CubeSats. We thank for the support of the radio amateur community, especially the maintainers and the station owners of the SatNOGS network. We look forward to more successful nanosatellite missions!
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40662
SUBJECT: EP250610a: Swift-XRT counterpart detection
DATE: 25/06/10 08:55:22 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), J.A. Kennea (PSU), E. Ambrosi (INAF-IASFPA) , A.P.
Beardmore (U. Leicester), M.G. Bernardini (INAF-OAB), R. Brivio (INAF-OAB), D.N.
Burrows (PSU), S. Campana (INAF-OAB), M. Capalbi (INAF-OAR), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA),
P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), V. D'Elia (SSDC & INAF-OAR), S. Dichiara (PSU), M. Ferro
(INAF-OAB), A. Melandri (INAF-OAR), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), K.L. Page (U.
Leicester), M. Perri (SSDC & INAF-OAR), C. Salvaggio (INAF-OAB), T. Sbarrato
(INAF-OAB), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB), M.A. Williams (PSU) report on behalf of the
Swift-XRT team:
Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of the Einstein Probe/WXT-detected
source EP250610a, collecting 2.1 ks of Photon Counting (PC) mode data between T0+2.8
ks and T0+9.4 ks after the trigger. A candidate counterpart has been found. The
details of this source are:
Source 1 (SWIFT J163325.5+383159):
==================================
RA (J2000.0): 248.3564 = 16h 33m 25.54s
Dec (J2000.0): +38.5332 = +38d 31' 59.5"
Error: 4.6 (arcsec, radius, 90% confidence).
Detect flag: GOOD
Distance: 2.2 arcmin from the Einstein Probe/WXT position.
Mean rate: 0.0111 +/- 0.0027 ct s^-1
Mean flux: (4.4 +/- 1.1)e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1
Peak rate: 0.0111 +/- 0.0027 ct s^-1
Peak flux: (4.4 +/- 1.1)e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1
ECF: 3.96e-11 erg cm^-2 ct^-1, assuming NH=1.07e+20 cm^-2,
gamma=1.73; determined from a spectral fit.
LSXPS UL: 2.4e-03 ct/sec, (0.3-10 keV)
so the source is 3.1-sigma above this 3-sigma upper limit.
There is no evidence for fading.
We have detected a total of 2 sources. These have been automatically classified as
follows:
* 0 likely counterparts
* 1 candidate counterpart
* 1 uncatalogued X-ray source
* 0 known X-ray sources
Uncatalogued X-ray sources
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Source 2 (SWIFT J163309.1+383226):
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RA (J2000.0): 248.2883 = 16h 33m 09.19s
Dec (J2000.0): +38.5406 = +38d 32' 26.2"
Error: 7.1 (arcsec, radius, 90% confidence).
Detect flag: REASONABLE
Distance: 78 arcsec from the Einstein Probe/WXT position.
Mean rate: (2.4 [+1.6, -1.1])e-3 ct s^-1
Mean flux: (1.02 [+0.70, -0.49])e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1
Peak rate: (2.4 [+1.6, -1.1])e-3 ct s^-1
Peak flux: (1.02 [+0.70, -0.49])e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1
LSXPS UL: 3.1e-03 ct/sec, (0.3-10 keV)
so the source is not above this 3-sigma upper limit.
There is no evidence for fading.
There is 1 2MASS object within the source's 3-sigma error radius.
All fluxes are 0.3-10 keV, observed. For all flux conversions and comparisons with
catalogues and upper limits from other missions, we assumed a power-law spectrum
with NH=3x10^20 cm^-2 and photon index (Gamma)=1.7 unless otherwise stated.
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis of the XRT observations, including a
position-specific upper limit calculator, are available at
https://www.swift.ac.uk/EP.
This circular is an officicial product of the Swift-XRT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40661
SUBJECT: EP250610a: COLIBRÍ optical upper limit
DATE: 25/06/10 07:27:07 GMT
FROM: Benjamin Schneider at MIT <bschn(a)mit.edu>
Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Fredd Alvarez (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Dalya Akl (AUS), Sarah Antier (OCA), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM):
We imaged the field of the EP250610a (Zhang et al., GCN Circ. 40660) using the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2025-06-10T05:04:33 to 05:23:35 UTC (from 38.7 to 57.8 minutes after the trigger, 3 minutes after the notice) and obtained 16 minutes of exposure in the i filter.
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 catalog, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
In the stacked image, we do not detect any new source at the FXT position (Zhang et al., GCN Circ. 40660) down to the following 3-sigma limit:
i > 22.9
Further observations and analysis 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: 40661
SUBJECT: EP250610a: COLIBRÍ optical upper limit
DATE: 25/06/10 07:27:07 GMT
FROM: Benjamin Schneider at MIT <bschn(a)mit.edu>
Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Fredd Alvarez (UNAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Dalya Akl (AUS), Sarah Antier (OCA), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), Leonardo García García (UNAM), Noémie Globus (UNAM), Kin Ocelotl López (UNAM), Diego López-Cámara (UNAM), Francesco Magnani (CPPM), Enrique Moreno Méndez (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Ny Avo Rakotondrainibe (LAM), and Antonio de Ugarte Postigo (LAM):
We imaged the field of the EP250610a (Zhang et al., GCN Circ. 40660) using the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope. We observed from 2025-06-10T05:04:33 to 05:23:35 UTC (from 38.7 to 57.8 minutes after the trigger, 3 minutes after the notice) and obtained 16 minutes of exposure in the i filter.
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 catalog, is in the AB system, and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
In the stacked image, we do not detect any new source at the FXT position (Zhang et al., GCN Circ. 40660) down to the following 3-sigma limit:
i > 22.9
Further observations and analysis 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: 40660
SUBJECT: EP250610a: Einstein Probe detection of an X-ray transient
DATE: 25/06/10 06:40:33 GMT
FROM: EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta(a)bao.ac.cn>
Y. J. Zhang (THU), T. Y. Lian, H. Q. Cheng, C. C. Jin (NAO, CAS) on behalf of the Einstein Probe (EP) team:
We report on the detection of an X-ray transient by the Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) on board the Einstein Probe (EP) mission, designated EP250610a. The transient triggered EP-WXT (ID: 01709178308) at 2025-06-10T04:25:50 (UTC). The WXT position of the source is R.A. = 248.310 deg, DEC = 38.527 deg (J2000) with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin in radius (90% C.L. statistical and systematic).
A follow-up observation with the Follow-up X-ray Telescope (FXT) was performed automatically. Within the WXT error circle, an uncatalogued X-ray source was detected at R.A. = 248.3573 deg, DEC = 38.5387 deg (J2000) with an uncertainty of 20 arcsec in radius (90% C.L. statistical and systematic).
Further information will be updated when the telemetry data is received.
Launched on January 9, 2024, EP is a space X-ray observatory to monitor the soft X-ray sky with X-ray follow-up capability (Yuan et al. 2022, Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics).
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