- GCN NOTICE
TITLE: GCN/FERMI NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE: Sat 17 Jan 09 15:22:11 UT
NOTICE_TYPE: Fermi-GBM Flight Position
RECORD_NUM: 45
TRIGGER_NUM: 253898523
GRB_RA: 173.883d {+11h 35m 32s} (J2000),
173.989d {+11h 35m 57s} (current),
173.303d {+11h 33m 13s} (1950)
GRB_DEC: -62.733d {-62d 43' 59"} (J2000),
-62.783d {-62d 47' 00"} (current),
-62.457d {-62d 27' 23"} (1950)
GRB_ERROR: 9.05 [deg radius, statistical plus systematic]
GRB_INTEN: 234 [cnts/sec]
DATA_SIGNIF: 11.20 [sigma]
INTEG_TIME: 1.024 [sec]
GRB_DATE: 14848 TJD; 17 DOY; 09/01/17
GRB_TIME: 55321.05 SOD {15:22:01.05} UT
GRB_PHI: 62.00 [deg]
GRB_THETA: 55.00 [deg]
DATA_TIME_SCALE: 1.0240 [sec]
HARD_RATIO: 3.10
LOC_ALGORITHM: 3 (version number of)
MOST_LIKELY: 59% GRB
2nd_MOST_LIKELY: 38% Generic SGR
DETECTORS: 0,1,1, 0,0,0, 0,0,0, 0,0,0, 0,0,
SUN_POSTN: 299.73d {+19h 58m 55s} -20.63d {-20d 37' 44"}
SUN_DIST: 86.37 [deg] Sun_angle= 8.4 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN: 198.55d {+13h 14m 12s} -13.30d {-13d 18' 17"}
MOON_DIST: 52.45 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM: 55 [%]
GAL_COORDS: 294.36, -1.13 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
ECL_COORDS: 214.13,-56.61 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
COMMENTS: Fermi-GBM Flight-calculated Coordinates.
COMMENTS: This trigger occurred at longitude,latitude = 122.77,-4.13 [deg].
- GCN NOTICE
TITLE: GCN/FERMI NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE: Sat 17 Jan 09 15:22:54 UT
NOTICE_TYPE: Fermi-GBM Ground Position
RECORD_NUM: 56
TRIGGER_NUM: 253898523
GRB_RA: 178.120d {+11h 52m 29s} (J2000),
178.233d {+11h 52m 56s} (current),
177.500d {+11h 50m 00s} (1950)
GRB_DEC: -62.320d {-62d 19' 11"} (J2000),
-62.370d {-62d 22' 12"} (current),
-62.042d {-62d 02' 29"} (1950)
GRB_ERROR: 4.77 [deg radius, statistical only]
DATA_SIGNIF: 13.80 [sigma]
DATA_INTERVAL: 1.024 [sec]
GRB_DATE: 14848 TJD; 17 DOY; 09/01/17
GRB_TIME: 55321.05 SOD {15:22:01.05} UT
GRB_PHI: 62.00 [deg]
GRB_THETA: 57.00 [deg]
E_RANGE: 44.032 - 279.965 [keV]
LOC_ALGORITHM: 1 (Gnd S/W Version number)
SUN_POSTN: 299.73d {+19h 58m 55s} -20.63d {-20d 37' 43"}
SUN_DIST: 85.10 [deg] Sun_angle= 8.1 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN: 198.56d {+13h 14m 13s} -13.31d {-13d 18' 26"}
MOON_DIST: 51.16 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM: 55 [%]
GAL_COORDS: 296.14, -0.23 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
ECL_COORDS: 216.08,-54.94 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
COMMENTS: Fermi-GBM Ground-calculated Coordinates.
COMMENTS: This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.
- GCN Circular #8766
I. Donnarumma, E. Del Monte, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, F. Lazzarotto,
L. Pacciani, P. Soffitta, E. Costa, I. Lapshov, M. Rapisarda
(INAF/IASF Rome), A. Giuliani, S. Vercellone, A. Chen,
S. Mereghetti, A. Pellizzoni, F. Perotti, P.
Caraveo (INAF/IASF Milan), A. Bulgarelli, F. Gianotti,
M. Trifoglio, G. Di Cocco, C. Labanti, F. Fuschino, M. Marisaldi,
M. Galli, (INAF/IASF Bologna), M. Tavani, G. Pucella, F. D'Ammando, V.
Vittorini, A. Argan, A. Trois, G. Piano, S. Sabatini (INAF/IASF Rome),
G. Barbiellini, F. Longo, E. Moretti (INFN Trieste), P. Picozza,
A. Morselli (INFN Roma-2), M. Prest, E. Vallazza (Universita`
dell'Insubria), P. Lipari, D. Zanello (INFN Roma-1), and P. Giommi, C.
Pittori, B. Preger, P. Santolamazza, F. Verrecchia (ASDC) and L. Salotti
(ASI), on behalf of the AGILE Team, report:
"SuperAGILE detected a gamma ray burst on 17 January 2009, at 15:21:54 UT.
The event had a duration of about 10.0 s in the 20-60 keV energy range,
with a precursor followed by the main peak. Assuming a crab-like energy
spectrum, the peak flux on 1-s timescale was about
2.7E-07 erg/cm2/s.
The burst position was reconstructed as (RA, Dec)
(164.003 deg, -58.249 deg), which is:
RA(J2000) = 10h 56m 00.75s
Dec(J2000) = -58d 14' 57.84"
with an uncertainty of 3' radius. The given uncertainty accounts
for both the statistical and systematic errors.
An analysis of the AGILE Gamma Ray Imager (GRID) data is in progress."
- GCN/BACODINE POSITION NOTICE
TITLE: GCN/SuperAGILE NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE: Sat 17 Jan 09 17:58:10 UT
NOTICE_TYPE: SuperAGILE GRB Ground Position
TRIGGER_NUM: 1008
GRB_RA: 164.003d {+10h 56m 01s} (J2000),
164.096d {+10h 56m 23s} (current),
163.488d {+10h 53m 57s} (1950)
GRB_DEC: -58.249d {-58d 14' 55"} (J2000),
-58.297d {-58d 17' 50"} (current),
-57.982d {-57d 58' 53"} (1950)
GRB_ERROR: 3.00 [arcmin radius, statistical plus systematic]
GRB_INTEN: 266.070 336.242 [X & Y cnts]
GRB_SIGNIF: 10.32 11.63 [sigma]
GRB_DATE: 14848 TJD; 17 DOY; 09/01/17
GRB_TIME: 55315.02 SOD {15:21:55.02} UT
SUN_POSTN: 299.85d {+19h 59m 23s} -20.61d {-20d 36' 25"}
SUN_DIST: 93.03 [deg] Sun_angle= 9.0 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN: 199.84d {+13h 19m 21s} -13.86d {-13d 51' 22"}
MOON_DIST: 51.84 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM: 54 [%]
GAL_COORDS: 288.22, 1.29 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
ECL_COORDS: 202.08,-56.91 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
COMMENTS: SuperAGILE GRB Coordinates.
COMMENTS: This is a GRB.
COMMENTS: SuperAGILE ground GRB coordinates
- red DSS finding chart
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- GCN Circular #8818
A.P. Beardmore and P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) report on behalf of the
Swift-XRT team :
The Swift-XRT began observing the field of the SuperAGILE GRB 090117 at
2009-01-17 19:10:13 UT, 13.7 ks after the burst. In a 1.9 ks Photon
Counting mode X-ray image covering the 0.3-10 keV band, we detect an
uncatalogued source within the SuperAGILE error circle at the
astrometrically corrected X-ray position (using the XRT-UVOT alignment and
matching UVOT field sources to the USNO-B1 catalogue) of RA, Dec =
164.0444, -58.2336 which is equivalent to:
RA (J2000): 10 56 10.66
Dec (J2000): -58 14 00.8
with an uncertainty of 2.4 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. The
position enhancement is described by Goad et al. (2007, A&A, 476, 1401
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_positions/Goad.pdf), the current algorithm is
an extension of this method.
At this stage we cannot tell if the source is fading to confirm that it
is the X-ray counterpart of the SuperAGILE burst.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
- GCN Circular #8819
P. Schady (MSSL-UCL) reports on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began observing the field of SuperAGILE GRB 090117
(Donnarumma et al., GCN 8817) at 2009-01-017 19:10:14 UT, 13.7 ks
after the burst. We do not detect any source at the Swift XRT position
(Beardmore et al., GCN 8818), although we note that there is a bright
star with v-band magnitude v = 17.7 that lies within the XRT error
circle.
The UVOT 3-sigma upper limits are reported below:
Filter T_start Exp(s) Mag (3-sigma upper limit)
-------------------------------------------------------------
white 14.4 455 > 17.18
v 15.1 595 > 16.18
b 13.8 627 > 17.08
u 13.7 63 > 17.27
-------------------------------------------------------------
The quoted upper limits have not been corrected for the expected
Galactic extinction along the line of sight of E_(B-V) = 1.63 mag. All
photometry is on the UVOT photometric system described in Poole et al.
(2008, MNRAS, 383, 627).
- GCN Circular #8820
A. Rossi (Tautenburg Obs.), F. Olivares (MPE Garching), A. Kupcu Yoldas (ESO),
J. Greiner, and A. Yoldas (both MPE Garching) report on behalf
of the GROND team:
We observed the field of GRB 090117 (SuperAGILE trigger, Donnarumma et al.
GCN #8817) simultaneously in g'r'i'z'JHK with GROND (Greiner et al. 2008,
PASP 120, 405) mounted at the 2.2m MPI/ESO telescope at La Silla (Chile).
Observations started at 01:40 UT, about 9 hrs after the GRB.
We do not detect any new sources within the 5-sigma Swift/XRT error circle (Breadmore & Evans, GCN #8818). Note that there is a R~16 magnitude star within the XRT position contaminating the search for the GRB afterglow. Co-added images of the first 8 minutes yield the following specific limits (in AB magnitudes):
g' > 23.7
r' > 24.1
i' > 23.2
z' > 22.2
J > 21.9
H > 20.9
K > 20.3
The magnitudes are calibrated against the GROND zeropoints and 2MASS field
stars.
- GCN Circular #8821
Valerie Connaughton (UAH) reports on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:
"At 15:22:01.05 UT on 17 Jan 2009, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
triggered and located GRB 090117 (trigger 253898523 / 090117640)
which was also detected by SuperAGILE (Donnarumma et al. 2009,
GCN 8817).
The GBM on-ground location is consistent with the reported
position from SuperAGILE. The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is
51 degrees.
The GBM light curve shows a soft event with a single peak lasting
about 2 seconds superimposed on a lower-level continuum.
The burst duration (T90) is about 21 s (8-1000 keV).
The time-averaged spectrum from T0-5 s to T0+4 s is
best fit by a Band function with Epeak = 25 +/- 2 keV,
alpha = -0.4 +/- 0.5, and beta = -2.5 +/- 0.1
The event fluence (8-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(1.8 +/- 1.3)E-6 erg/cm^2, with a 1 sec peak flux starting
at T0 of 9.6 +/- 4.2 ph/cm^2/s and a 0.256 sec peak flux starting
at T0+0.256 sec of 18.6 +/- 8.0 ph/cm^2/s.
In view of the soft spectrum and the position of the burster close to
the Galactic plane, other spectral forms were investigated that are
more typical of galactic transient sources. Of these, the best fit was
obtained using a thermal Bremmstrahlung model with kT = 49.
The Band GRB function was preferred statistically with delta chi2
= -5 for 1 extra parameter. It is likely, therefore, that this is a soft
GRB rather than a new galactic transient.
The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary;
final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog."
- GCN Circular #8823
K.L. Page & A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester) report on behalf of the
Swift-XRT team:
Following the collection of further XRT data, we see that the source found
by Beardmore & Evans (GCN Circ. 8818) is fading, so confirm it as the
X-ray afterglow of GRB 090117 (Donnarumma et al., GCN Circ. 8817;
Connaughton, GCN Circ. 8821).
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
- GCN Circular #8954
Aquib Moin (Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy / Australia Telescope
National Facility), Steven Tingay (Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy),
Chris Phillips (Australia Telescope National Facility), Gregory Taylor
(University of New Mexico), Mark Wieringa (Australia Telescope National
Facility) and Ralph Martin (Perth Observatory) report:
We observed the SuperAGILE-GRID position of the GRB090117 (GCN 8817) at
4.800 and 4.928 GHz with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA)
between 01:00:00 UT and 22:00:00 UT on February 21/22, 2009.
We did not detect a radio source at the position of the GRB090117 (GCN
8817). The data at 4.800 and 4.928 GHz were merged and the radio flux
density at the GRB position found out to be -0.0109 +/- 0.189 mJy/beam
(1-sigma).
The Australia Telescope Compact Array (/ Parkes telescope / Mopra
telescope / Long Baseline Array) is part of the Australia Telescope
which is funded by the Commonwealth of Australia for operation as a
National Facility managed by CSIRO.
See the 4.800 & 4.928 GHz combined image at:
http://cira.ivec.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/grb/grb090117/grb090117_field_image
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