TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40235
SUBJECT: GRB 250330B: GRBAlpha detection
DATE: 25/04/24 14:56:21 GMT
FROM: Jakub Ripa <ripa.jakub(a)gmail.com>
J. Ripa, M. Dafcikova (Masaryk U.), A. Pal (Konkoly Observatory), N. Werner (Masaryk U.), M. Ohno, H. Takahashi (Hiroshima U.), L. Meszaros, 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.
The short-duration GRB 250330B (Fermi/GBM detection: GCN 39951; EIRSAT-1/GMOD detection: GCN 39989; SVOM/GRM detection: GCN 39993; Wind/Konus detection trigger at 2025-03-30 21:52:22.793 UTC) was observed by the GRBAlpha 1U CubeSat (Pal et al. 2023, A&A, 677, 40; https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023A%26A...677A..40P/abstract).
The detection was confirmed at the peak time 2025-03-30 21:52:21.7 UTC. The T90 duration measured by GRBAlpha is 1.0 s and the overall significance during T90 reaches 6.8 sigma.
The light curve obtained by GRBAlpha is available here: https://grbalpha.konkoly.hu/static/share/GRB250330B_GCN.pdf
All GRBAlpha detections are listed at: https://monoceros.physics.muni.cz/hea/GRBAlpha/
GRBAlpha, launched on 2021 March 22, is a demonstration mission for a future CubeSat constellation (Werner et al. Proc. SPIE 2018). The detector of GRBAlpha consists of a 75 x 75 x 5 mm3 CsI scintillator read out by a SiPM array, covering the energy range from ~50 keV to ~1000 keV. To increase the duty cycle and the downlink rate, the upgrade of the on-board data acquisition software stack is in progress. The ground segment is also supported by the radio amateur community and it takes advantage of the SatNOGS network for increased data downlink volume.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40234
SUBJECT: GRB 250419A: SVOM/ECLAIRs refined analysis
DATE: 25/04/24 14:12:58 GMT
FROM: SVOM_group <svomgroup(a)bao.ac.cn>
M. Brunet (IRAP), M. G. Bernardini (INAF-OAB, LUPM), A. Coleiro, F. Cangemi (APC), O. Godet (IRAP), W. J. Xie, D. H. ZHAO (NAO, CAS), B.-T. Wang (YNAO, CAS), Y. H. Cheng (SWIFAR,YNU)
Using the event-by-event data downloaded through the X-band ground station, we report further analysis of ECLAIRs observations of GRB 250419A (SVOM burst-id sb25041901).
The burst that triggered ECLAIRs onboard (GCN 40168) consists of a single pulse with a duration of T90 = 11.44 -2.58/+2.85 s in the 5-8 keV energy band. However, the full dataset shows another pulse with a duration of ~15 s at ~Tb-120 s. No counts are detected above 12 keV for the first pulse and above 10 keV for the second one, making this event very soft.
The time-averaged spectrum of the first pulse (from Tb-118s to Tb-102s) in the energy range 4-12 keV is best fit by a simple power-law model with a photon index 3.01 -0.69/+0.80.
The time-averaged spectrum of the second pulse (from Tb to Tb+20s) in the energy range 4-10 keV is best fit by a simple power-law model with a photon index 3.02 -0.53/+0.56.
The total fluence in the 4-10 keV band is (1.41 -0.37/+0.03) e-7 erg/cm^2.
In both time intervals, a black-body model (zbb model in Xspec with z = 0.845, GCN 40174) provides an adequate fit to the data. The first pulse has a temperature of 2.44 -0.54/+0.64 keV, and the second one a temperature of 2.28 - 0.31/+0.38 keV. In that case, the total fluence is (1.38 0.10/+0.06) e-7 erg/cm^2.
All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level.
The spectral fits suggest that the Epeak of this burst is below the ECLAIRs energy range, i.e. <4 keV. Therefore this burst could be classified as an X-Ray Flash (XRF).
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.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40233
SUBJECT: GRB 250424A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis
DATE: 25/04/24 13:59:17 GMT
FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9(a)star.le.ac.uk>
C. Salvaggio (INAF-OAB), M. Ferro (INAF-OAB), R. Brivio (INAF-OAB),
J.A. Kennea (PSU), D.N. Burrows (PSU), M. A. Williams (PSU), A.P.
Beardmore (U. Leicester), J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester) and P.A. Evans
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
We have analysed 6.9 ks of XRT data for GRB 250424A, from 259 s to 18.9
ks after the BAT trigger. The data are entirely in Photon Counting
(PC) mode.
The light curve can be modelled with a series of power-law decays. The
initial decay index is alpha=0.20 (+0.12, -0.13). At T+2382 s the
decay steepens to an alpha of 0.53 (+0.16, -0.11) before breaking again
at T+17.4 ks to a final decay with index alpha=4.5 (+3.5, -2.8).
A spectrum formed from the PC mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index of 2.05 (+/-0.11). The
best-fitting absorption column is 1.04 (+0.11, -0.10) x 10^22 cm^-2,
in excess of the Galactic value of 6.4 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Willingale et al.
2013). The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion
factor deduced from this spectrum is 4.9 x 10^-11 (9.6 x 10^-11) erg
cm^-2 count^-1.
A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:
Total column: 1.04 (+0.11, -0.10) x 10^22 cm^-2
Galactic foreground: 6.4 x 10^20 cm^-2
Excess significance: 15.7 sigma
Photon index: 2.05 (+/-0.11)
If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of
4.5, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 5.3 x 10^-4 count s^-1,
corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 2.6 x
10^-14 (5.1 x 10^-14) erg cm^-2 s^-1.
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/01306404.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40232
SUBJECT: GRB 250424A: Enhanced Swift-XRT position
DATE: 25/04/24 12:21:10 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 3429 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 5 UVOT
images for GRB 250424A, 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 = 217.49920, -35.02504 which is equivalent
to:
RA (J2000): 14h 29m 59.81s
Dec (J2000): -35d 01' 30.2"
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 http://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: 40231
SUBJECT: GRB 250424A: AstroSat CZTI detection of a bright long burst
DATE: 25/04/24 11:37:06 GMT
FROM: Gaurav Waratkar at IIT Bombay <gauravwaratkar(a)iitb.ac.in>
Harsha K. H. (IUCAA), M. Tembhurnikar (IUCAA), G. Waratkar (IITB), A. Vibhute (IUCAA), V. Bhalerao (IITB), D. Bhattacharya (Ashoka University/IUCAA), A. R. Rao (IUCAA/TIFR), and S. Vadawale (PRL) report on behalf of the AstroSat CZTI collaboration:
Analysis of AstroSat CZTI data with the ML pipeline (Abraham et al., 2021, MNRAS, 504, 3084) and the CIFT framework (Sharma et al., 2021, JApA, 42, 73) showed the detection of a bright long-duration GRB 250424A which was also detected by Swift/BAT (Cenko et. al., GCN Circ. 40224), and Calet/CGBM (Trigger No. 1429512582).
The source was clearly detected in the CZT detectors in the 20-200 keV energy range. The light curve peaks at 2025-04-24 06:52:13.50 UTC. The measured peak count rate associated with the burst is 332.3 (+35.7 -27.5) counts/s above the background in the combined data of two quadrants (out of four), with a total of 2298 (+184 -190) counts. The local mean background count rate was 157.4 (+2.7 -3.0) counts/s. Using cumulative rates, we measure a T90 of 9.2 (+1.5 -1.0) s. In the preliminary analysis, we find 665 Compton events associated with this event.
The source was also clearly detected in the CsI anticoincidence (Veto) detector in the 100-500 keV energy range. The light curve peaks at 2025-04-24 06:52:12.48 UTC. The measured peak count rate associated with the burst is 1364 (+88, -94) counts/s above the background in the combined data of all quadrants, with a total of 8511 (+491, -536) counts. The local mean background count rate was 1507 (+7, -8) counts/s. We measure a T90 of 14 (+1, -3) s from the cumulative Veto light curve.
CZTI is built by a TIFR-led consortium of institutes across India, including VSSC, URSC, IUCAA, SAC, and PRL. The Indian Space Research Organisation funded, managed, and facilitated the project.
CZTI GRB detections are reported regularly on the payload site at:
http://astrosat.iucaa.in/czti/?q=grb
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40230
SUBJECT: GRB 250424A: COLIBRÍ Detection of a Bright Optical Counterpart
DATE: 25/04/24 10:48:17 GMT
FROM: J.-G. Ducoin at CPPM <ducoin(a)cppm.in2p3.fr>
Jean-Grégoire Ducoin (CPPM), Benjamin Schneider (LAM), Ramandeep Gill (UNAM), Stéphane Basa (UAR Pytheas), William H. Lee (UNAM), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Dalya Akl (AUS), Camila Angulo (UNAM), Sarah Antier (OCA/IJCLAB), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Rosa L. Becerra (U Roma), Nathaniel R. Butler (ASU), Damien Dornic (CPPM), Francis Fortin (IRAP), 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) report:
We imaged the field of Swift/BAT GRB 250424A (Cenko et al., GCN Circ. 40224) with the DDRAGO wide-field imager on the COLIBRÍ telescope at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir in Mexico.
We started observing at 2025-04-24T08:39:07 UTC (1.78h after the trigger). The data were coadded with the COLIBRÍ pipeline and analyzed in STDWeb/STDPipe (Karpov 2025), with photometric calibration against SkyMapper DR4. Our photometry is in the AB system and is not corrected for Galactic extinction.
In our first 780 seconds of exposure, At the position of the optical counterpart (Francile et al. GCN Circ. 40222; Cenko et al. GCN Circ. 40224; Brivio et al. GCN Circ. 40225; Becerra et al. GCN Circ. 40226; Saccardi et al. GCN Circ. 40228; de Wet et al. GCN Circ. 40229), we detect a source with
i = 18.93 +/- 0.05
Further observations and analysis are ongoing.
We warmly thank the COLIBRÍ and DDRAGO engineering teams and the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40229
SUBJECT: GRB 250424A: BlackGEM optical afterglow detection
DATE: 25/04/24 09:43:29 GMT
FROM: Simon de Wet at University of Cape Town <simdewet(a)gmail.com>
S. de Wet (DTU), P.J. Groot (Radboud/UCT/SAAO) and P.M. Vreeswijk (Radboud) report on behalf of the BlackGEM consortium:
The BlackGEM Unit Telescope 4 (BG4) located at ESO La Silla, Chile, responded automatically to the Swift trigger on GRB 250424A (Cenko et al., GCN 40224) and obtained a repeating series of 60 s exposures in the q,u,g,r,i,z bands. The first exposure started 264 s after the trigger time at 06:56:53 UT on 2025 April 24. A total of 26 exposures were obtained.
We detect the optical afterglow with the following AB magnitudes:
q = 18.30 +/- 0.03 at 06:57:24 UT
u = 19.33 +/- 0.18 at 06:58:47 UT
g = 18.98 +/- 0.05 at 07:01:32 UT
r = 18.58 +/- 0.04 at 07:04:17 UT
i = 18.26 +/- 0.04 at 07:07:02 UT
z = 18.22 +/- 0.10 at 07:09:46 UT
BlackGEM is an array of wide-field telescopes designed, built and operated by a consortium consisting of Radboud University, the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy NOVA, KU Leuven, the University of Manchester, Tel Aviv University, the Weizmann Institute, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Potsdam, Texas Tech University, the University of California at Davis, the Danish Technical University and the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40228
SUBJECT: GRB 250424A: VLT/X-shooter spectroscopic redshift z = 0.310
DATE: 25/04/24 09:42:20 GMT
FROM: Daniele B. Malesani at IMAPP / Radboud University <d.malesani(a)astro.ru.nl>
A. Saccardi (CEA/Irfu), D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud Univ.), G. Corcoran (UCD), S. Covino (INAF/OAB), N. Habeeb (Leicester), L. Izzo (INAF/OACN and DARK/NBI), A. J. Levan (Radboud and Warwick), A. Martin-Carrillo (UCD), J. T. Palmerio (CEA/Irfu), G. Pugliese (API), B. Schneider (LAM), N. R. Tanvir (Leicester), S. D. Vergani (LUX-Paris Obs.), K. Wiersema (Hertfordshire), report on behalf of the Stargate collaboration:
We observed the optical and NIR afterglow of GRB 250424A (Francile et al., GCN 40222; Cenko et al., GCN 40224; Brivio et al., GCN 40225; Becerra et al., GCN 40226) using the ESO VLT UT3 (Melipal) equipped with the X-shooter spectrograph. Observations started on 2025 Apr 24.322 UT (0.87 hr after the Swift/BAT trigger) and consisted of a sequence of increasing exposure times (175, 300, 600, 1200, 1920 s).
In the acquisition image (taken at a mid time of 0.851 hr after the Swift/BAT trigger), the counterpart is well detected with a magnitude r = 19.09 +- 0.02, calibrated against nearby stars from the SkyMapper catalog (Wolf et al. 2018, doi:10.4225/41/593620ad5b574).
We detect a bright continuum over the wavelength range 3100 to 24,500 AA. Many absorption features are visible which we interpret as Mn II, Fe II, Mg II, Mg I, Ti II, Ca II, Na I, including a number of fine-structure transitions from Fe II*, all at a common redshift z = 0.310. At a consistent redshift, we also detect several emission lines, due to [O II], [O III], [S II], [N II], and the Balmer lines from the GRB host galaxy (Perez-Fournon et al., GCN 40227). We note that our redshift is consistent with the photometric determination z = 0.33 +/- 0.12 of the host redshift from the Legacy Survey (Zhou et al. 2021, doi:10.1093/mnras/staa3764).
We acknowledge excellent support from the ESO observing staff in Paranal.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40227
SUBJECT: GRB 250424A: likely host galaxy
DATE: 25/04/24 08:54:58 GMT
FROM: Ismael Perez-Fournon at Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias <ipf(a)iac.es>
I. Pérez-Fournon, F. Poidevin (IAC and ULL), D. Cano-Morales, A.E. Hernández-Díaz, I. Correa-Plasencia (ULL), and A. López-Oramas (IAC and ULL)
We report on the likely host galaxy of the Swift/BAT GRB 250424A (Cenko et al., GCN circ. 40224), with Swift/XRT and Swift/UVOT detections (Cenko et al., GCN circ. 40224) and detections in the optical by Global MASTER-net (Francile et al. GCN circ. 40222) and DDOTI (Becerra et al., GCN circ. 40226) and in the optical and near-IR by REM (Brivio et al., GCN circ. 40225). A catalogued Legacy Surveys DR10 (LS DR10) galaxy (RA, Dec = 217.4999, -35.0252) is visible at the position of the optical and near-IR counterpart of GRB 250424A, with magnitudes in the LS DR10 catalog of g=22.60, r=21.98, i=22.05, and z=21.70. This galaxy is located at about 0.3" from the Swift/UVOT position and 0.2" from the Global MASTER-net position. We propose that this galaxy is the host of GRB 250424A.
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TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 40226
SUBJECT: GRB 250424A: DDOTI Afterglow Detection
DATE: 25/04/24 08:30:40 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), Eleonora Troja (U Roma), 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) and Margarita Pereyra (UNAM) report:
We observed the field of the GRB 250424A detected by Swift/BAT (Cenko
et al., GCN Circ. 40136) 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 2025-04-24 UTC from 07:23 UTC to 7:45 UTC (from T+30.6 h to T+53.5 min after the trigger) and obtained a total exposure of 20 minutes.
Comparing our observations to the USNO-B1 and Pan-STARRS PS1 DR2 catalogues, we
detect a source consistent with the UVOT position (Cenko et al., GCN Circ. 40136) and the previous optical detections (Francile et al., GCN Circ. 40222, Brivio et al., GCN Circ. 40225), with an AB magnitude of:
w = 19.4 +/- 0.1
Further observations and analysis are ongoing.
This value is not corrected for the Galactic extinction.
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra of San Pedro Mártir.
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