TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 42522 SUBJECT: GRB 251028A: SVOM/GRM observation DATE: 25/10/30 13:47:16 GMT FROM: Haoxuan Guo skyairsama@gmail.com
SVOM/GRM team: Hao-Xuan Guo, Chen-Wei Wang, Zheng-Hang Yu, Chao Zheng,, Yue Huang, Shi-Jie Zheng, Shao-Lin Xiong, Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP)SVOM/ECLAIRs team: Report on behalf of the SVOM team:
SVOM/ECLAIRs team: Sebastien Guillot (IRAP)
SVOM/GRM was triggered in-flight by a burst GRB 251028A (SVOM trigger reference: sb25102801) at 2025-10-28T03:26:37.000 UTC (T0), which is also detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN#42497, GCN#42499), MAXI/GSC (MAXI team, GCN#42498) and Glowbug (C.C. Cheung et al., GCN#42506).
With the event-by-event data downloaded through the X-band ground station, the GRM light curve shows that this burst consists of multiple peaks with a T90 of 31.0 +6.5/-3.0 s in the 15-5000 keV band.
The SVOM/GRM light curve can be found here: https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/svgrb251028A.png
In addition, the position of this burst, as determined by Fermi/GBM (RA= 149.5, DEC= 20.2, GCN#42497), is located at about 157 degrees from the SVOM optical axis, which is outside the ECLAIRs field of view, but this burst still clearly detected by ECLAIRs due to the reflection of the Earth atmosphere.
With this localization, the time-averaged spectrum from T0-10 to T0+45 s is best fitted by a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -1.31 +0.14/-0.16 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 345 +107/-64 keV. The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (4.56 +0.24/-0.27)E-5 erg/cm^2.
The localization of GRB 251028A in the 'Amati' relation diagram is shown at: https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/svgrb251028A_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: Hao-Xuan Guo (IHEP)(guohx@ihep.ac.cn)
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