- GCN NOTICE
TITLE: GCN/FERMI NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE: Mon 06 Aug 18 22:39:23 UT
NOTICE_TYPE: Fermi-GBM Flight Position
RECORD_NUM: 45
TRIGGER_NUM: 555287944
GRB_RA: 15.633d {+01h 02m 32s} (J2000),
15.890d {+01h 03m 34s} (current),
14.945d {+00h 59m 47s} (1950)
GRB_DEC: +33.333d {+33d 19' 60"} (J2000),
+33.433d {+33d 25' 59"} (current),
+33.065d {+33d 03' 53"} (1950)
GRB_ERROR: 8.10 [deg radius, statistical plus systematic]
GRB_INTEN: 449 [cnts/sec]
DATA_SIGNIF: 14.70 [sigma]
INTEG_TIME: 0.512 [sec]
GRB_DATE: 18336 TJD; 218 DOY; 18/08/06
GRB_TIME: 81539.66 SOD {22:38:59.66} UT
GRB_PHI: 226.00 [deg]
GRB_THETA: 60.00 [deg]
DATA_TIME_SCALE: 0.5120 [sec]
HARD_RATIO: 0.53
LOC_ALGORITHM: 3 (version number of)
MOST_LIKELY: 88% GRB
2nd_MOST_LIKELY: 5% Distant Particles
DETECTORS: 0,0,0, 0,0,0, 0,1,1, 0,0,0, 0,0,
SUN_POSTN: 136.88d {+09h 07m 31s} +16.51d {+16d 30' 19"}
SUN_DIST: 104.80 [deg] Sun_angle= 8.1 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN: 71.34d {+04h 45m 21s} +18.13d {+18d 07' 49"}
MOON_DIST: 51.59 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM: 27 [%]
GAL_COORDS: 125.59,-29.48 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
ECL_COORDS: 27.85, 24.49 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
LC_URL: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/fermi/data/gbm/triggers/2018/bn180806944/quicklook/glg_lc_medres34_bn180806944.gif
COMMENTS: Fermi-GBM Flight-calculated Coordinates.
COMMENTS: This trigger occurred at longitude,latitude = 194.23,24.95 [deg].
COMMENTS: The LC_URL file will not be created until ~15 min after the trigger.
- GCN NOTICE
TITLE: GCN/FERMI NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE: Mon 06 Aug 18 22:39:33 UT
NOTICE_TYPE: Fermi-GBM Flight Position
RECORD_NUM: 58
TRIGGER_NUM: 555287944
GRB_RA: 14.717d {+00h 58m 52s} (J2000),
14.969d {+00h 59m 53s} (current),
14.039d {+00h 56m 09s} (1950)
GRB_DEC: +28.517d {+28d 31' 00"} (J2000),
+28.617d {+28d 37' 00"} (current),
+28.247d {+28d 14' 49"} (1950)
GRB_ERROR: 4.72 [deg radius, statistical plus systematic]
GRB_INTEN: 672 [cnts/sec]
DATA_SIGNIF: 67.90 [sigma]
INTEG_TIME: 4.096 [sec]
GRB_DATE: 18336 TJD; 218 DOY; 18/08/06
GRB_TIME: 81539.66 SOD {22:38:59.66} UT
GRB_PHI: 227.00 [deg]
GRB_THETA: 65.00 [deg]
DATA_TIME_SCALE: 4.0960 [sec]
HARD_RATIO: 0.75
LOC_ALGORITHM: 3 (version number of)
MOST_LIKELY: 91% GRB
2nd_MOST_LIKELY: 6% Distant Particles
DETECTORS: 0,0,0, 0,0,0, 0,1,1, 0,0,0, 0,0,
SUN_POSTN: 136.88d {+09h 07m 31s} +16.51d {+16d 30' 19"}
SUN_DIST: 107.99 [deg] Sun_angle= 8.1 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN: 71.34d {+04h 45m 22s} +18.13d {+18d 07' 50"}
MOON_DIST: 52.33 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM: 27 [%]
GAL_COORDS: 124.91,-34.33 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
ECL_COORDS: 24.91, 20.44 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
LC_URL: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/fermi/data/gbm/triggers/2018/bn180806944/quicklook/glg_lc_medres34_bn180806944.gif
COMMENTS: Fermi-GBM Flight-calculated Coordinates.
COMMENTS: This trigger occurred at longitude,latitude = 194.23,24.95 [deg].
COMMENTS: The LC_URL file will not be created until ~15 min after the trigger.
- GCN NOTICE
TITLE: GCN/FERMI NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE: Mon 06 Aug 18 22:39:36 UT
NOTICE_TYPE: Fermi-GBM Ground Position
RECORD_NUM: 57
TRIGGER_NUM: 555287944
GRB_RA: 9.840d {+00h 39m 22s} (J2000),
10.087d {+00h 40m 21s} (current),
9.177d {+00h 36m 42s} (1950)
GRB_DEC: +26.640d {+26d 38' 24"} (J2000),
+26.742d {+26d 44' 31"} (current),
+26.365d {+26d 21' 56"} (1950)
GRB_ERROR: 1.15 [deg radius, statistical only]
DATA_SIGNIF: 58.50 [sigma]
DATA_INTERVAL: 4.096 [sec]
GRB_DATE: 18336 TJD; 218 DOY; 18/08/06
GRB_TIME: 81539.66 SOD {22:38:59.66} UT
GRB_PHI: 223.00 [deg]
GRB_THETA: 68.00 [deg]
E_RANGE: 44.032 - 279.965 [keV]
LOC_ALGORITHM: 4153 (Gnd S/W Version number)
SUN_POSTN: 136.88d {+09h 07m 31s} +16.51d {+16d 30' 19"}
SUN_DIST: 112.64 [deg] Sun_angle= 8.5 [hr] (West of Sun)
MOON_POSTN: 71.34d {+04h 45m 22s} +18.13d {+18d 07' 51"}
MOON_DIST: 56.76 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM: 27 [%]
GAL_COORDS: 119.59,-36.15 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
ECL_COORDS: 19.88, 20.53 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
LC_URL: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/fermi/data/gbm/triggers/2018/bn180806944/quicklook/glg_lc_medres34_bn180806944.gif
POS_MAP_URL: http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/notices_f/gbm_gnd_loc_map_555287944.fits
COMMENTS: Fermi-GBM Ground-calculated Coordinates.
COMMENTS: Bright hard burst in the GBM.
COMMENTS: This Notice was ground-generated -- not flight-generated.
COMMENTS: The LC_URL file will not be created/available until ~15 min after the trigger.
COMMENTS: The POS_MAP_URL file will not be created/available until ~1.5 min after the notice.
- GCN Circular #23091
V. Lipunov, N.Tiurina, E. Gorbovskoy,
V.Kornilov, A.Kuznetsov, V.Chazov, I. Gorbunov,
D.Zimnukhov, D.Kuvshinov, P.Balanutsa, V.Vladimirov, D. Vlasenko
Lomonosov Moscow State University,SAI
R. Rebolo, M. Serra, N. Lodieu, G. Israelian, L. Suarez-Andres
The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC)
D. Buckley,
South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO)
A. Tlatov, V.Senik, D. Dormidontov
Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory
R. Podesta, F. Podesta, C. Lopez, C.Francile
Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (OAFA)
H.Levato,
Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio (ICATE)
O. Gres, N.M.Budnev , Yu.Ishmuhametova
Irkutsk State University (ISU)
A. Gabovich, V. Yurkov, Yu. Sergienko
Blagoveschensk Educational State University (BSPU)
MASTER-IAC robotic telescope (MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru,
Lipunov et al., 2010, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2010, 30L) located in
Spain (IAC Teide Observatory) was pointed to the GRB180806.94 (GBM
trigger 555287944) 77 sec
after notice time and 122 sec after trigger time at 2018-08-06 22:41:02
UT.
The observations made on zenit distance = 78 deg., galactic latitude b
= -36 deg. The moon (27 % bright part) below the horizon (The altitude of
the Moon is -36 deg ). The sun altitude is -32.4 deg.
The object can be observed till sunrise at 2018-08-07 06:29:57 UT.
We found OT inside 3 sigma Fermi GBM error box.
The Cover Map is available at
http://master.sai.msu.ru/static/OT/MASTERmapFermi555287944.jpg
MASTER OT J004613.05+242014.1 discovery
MASTER-IAC auto-detection system discovered OT source at
(RA, Dec) = 00h 46m 13.05s +24d 20m 14.1s 109.3 min after trigger on
2018-08-07 00:28:20.467 UT .
The OT unfiltered magnitude is 17.0m (limit 17.9m).
The OT is seen in 4 images. There is no minor planet at this place.
We have reference image without OT on 2016-10-05.08846 UT with unfiltered
magnitude limit 20.2m.
There is no USNO-B1 sources, it means 22mag limit in history and more then
5m amplitude of current outburst.
There is Sloan star in 2.9"
Spectral observations are required.
The discovery and reference images are available at:
http://master.sai.msu.ru/static/OT/004613.05242014.1.png
This message can be cited.
- GCN Circular #23092
Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Nat Butler (ASU), Rosa L. Becerra (UNAM), William
H. Lee (UNAM), Carlos Román-Zúñiga (UNAM), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC), and
Eleonora Troja (GSFC) report:
We observed the field of the OT MASTER OT J004613.05+242014.1 (Lipunov
et al., GCN Circ. 23091) possibly associated with GRB 180806.94 (Fermi
trigger 555287944) with the COATLI 50-cm telescope and interim imager at
the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir
(http://coatli.astroscu.unam.mx) from 2018-08-07 11:23:26 UTC to
11:52:11 UTC, obtaining a total of 1440 seconds of exposure in the w
filter.
We detect a source coincident with the reported coordinates of the OT
(Lipunov et al., GCN Circ. 23091), and preliminary photometry suggests
w = 20.0 +/- 0.2
This magnitude is calibrated against the USNO-B1 catalog (adjusted to an
approximate AB system) and is not corrected for Galactic extinction in
the direction of the GRB.
Our observations would appear to show fading compared to the unfiltered
magnitude of 17.0 reported by Lipunov et al. (GCN Circ. 23091).
We thank the COATLI technical team (Fernando Ángeles, Oscar Chapa,
Salvador Cuevas, Alejandro Farah, Jorge Fuentes, Rosalía Langarica,
Fernando Quirós, and Carlos Tejada) and the staff of the Observatorio
Astronómico Nacional.
We thank Vladimir Lipunov for bringing this observation to our attention.
- GCN Circular #23093
P. A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift team:
Swift has initiated a ToO observation of the Fermi/GBM GRB 180806A.
Automated analysis of the XRT data will be presented online at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/ToO_GRBs/00020812
Any uncatalogued X-ray sources detected in this analysis will be
reported on this website and via GCN COUNTERPART notices. These are
not necessarily related to the Fermi/GBM event. Any X-ray source
considered to be a probable afterglow candidate will be reported via a
GCN Circular after manual consideration.
Details of the XRT automated analysis methods are detailed in Evans et
al. (2007, A&A, 469, 379; 2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177 and 2014, ApJS, 210, 8).
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
- GCN Circular #23094
Nat Butler (ASU), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Rosa L. Becerra (UNAM), William
H. Lee (UNAM), Carlos Román-Zúñiga (UNAM), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC), and
Eleonora Troja (GSFC) report:
We observed the field of the MASTER OT J004613.05+242014.1 (Lipunov et
al., GCN Circ. 23091), possibly associated with GRB 180806A/180806.94
(Fermi trigger 555287944), with the COATLI 50-cm telescope and interim
imager at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on the Sierra de San
Pedro Mártir (http://coatli.astroscu.unam.mx) from 2018-08-07 11:23:26
UTC to 12:21:39 UTC (12.74 to 13.71 hours after trigger), obtaining a
total of 2730 seconds of exposure in the w filter.
We detect a source coincident with the reported coordinates of the OT
(Lipunov et al., GCN Circ. 23091) with
w = 20.22 +/- 0.05
This magnitude is calibrated against the USNO-B1 catalog (adjusted to an
approximate AB system) and is not corrected for Galactic extinction in
the direction of the GRB.
This photometry supersedes that reported by Watson et al. (GCN 23092).
We thank the COATLI technical team (Fernando Ángeles, Oscar Chapa,
Salvador Cuevas, Alejandro Farah, Jorge Fuentes, Rosalía Langarica,
Fernando Quirós, and Carlos Tejada) and the staff of the Observatorio
Astronómico Nacional.
- GCN Circular #23095
C. Malacaria (NASA-MSFC/USRA), R. Hamburg (UAH), and C. Meegan (UAH)
report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:
"At 22:38:59.66 UT on 06 August 2018, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst
Monitor triggered and located GRB 180806A
(trigger 555287944 / 180806944).
The event was also possibly detected by MASTER OT
(Lipunov et al. 2018, GCN 23091) and COATLI (Watson et al. 2018,
GCN 23092, GCN 23094) and triggered a Swift/XRT ToO
(Evans et al. 2018, GCN 23093).
The GBM on-ground location and the MASTER position are consistent.
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight at the
GBM trigger time is 66 degrees.
The GBM light curve consists of a single peak
with a duration (T90) of about 15.6 +/- 0.8 s (50-300 keV).
The time-averaged spectrum from T0-1.5 s to T0+16.9 s is
best fit by a Band function with Epeak = 482.40 +/- 31.2,
alpha index = -0.95 +/- 0.02 and beta index = -2.37 +/- 0.19.
The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(2.197 +/- 0.039)E-05 erg/cm^2. The 1-sec peak photon flux
Measured starting from T0+4.9 s in the 10-1000 keV band
is 14.3 +/- 0.3 ph/s/cm^2.
The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary;
final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog."
- GCN Circular #23096
Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Nat Butler (ASU), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC),
William H. Lee (UNAM), Michael G. Richer (UNAM), Ori Fox (STScI), J.
Xavier Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB), Antonino Cucchiara (UVI),
Eleonora Troja (GSFC), Owen Littlejohns (ASU), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
(UCSC), Jesús González (UNAM), Carlos Román-Zúñiga (UNAM), Harvey
Moseley (GSFC), John Capone (UMD), V. Zach Golkhou (U. Wash.), and Vicki
Toy (UMD) report:
We observed the field of the Fermi GRB 180806A/180806.98 (Malacaria et
al., GCN Circ. 23095) with the Reionization and Transients Infrared
Camera (RATIR; www.ratir.org) on the 1.5m Harold Johnson Telescope at
the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on Sierra San Pedro Mártir from
2018/08 7.47 to 2018/08 7.51 UTC (12.69 to 13.71 hours after the GBM
trigger), obtaining a total of 0.71 hours exposure in the r and i bands.
We detect a source at the coordinates of the MASTER OT reported by
Lipunov et al. (GCN Circ. 23091). In comparison with the SDSS catalog,
we obtain the following magnitudes:
r = 20.21 +/- 0.02
i = 19.92 +/- 0.01
These magnitudes are in the AB system and are not corrected for Galactic
extinction in the direction of the GRB.
These magnitudes are similar to the w magnitude reported by Butler et
al. (GCN Circ. 23094) and further confirm the fading compared to the
earlier MASTER magnitude reported by Watson et al. (GCN Circ. 23092).
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional in San Pedro
Mártir.
- GCN Circular #23097
S.L. Gibson (U. Leicester), Z. Liu (NAOC / U. Leicester), V. D'Elia
(ASDC), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), A. Melandri (INAF-OAB), B. Sbarufatti
(INAF-OAB/PSU), D.N. Burrows (PSU), A. Tohuvavohu (PSU) and P.A. Evans
(U. Leicester) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of the
Fermi/GBM-detected burst GRB 180806A (Malacaria et al. GCN Circ.
23095), collecting 1.8 ks of Photon Counting (PC) mode data between
T0+57.6 ks and T0+76.2 ks.
Two uncatalogued X-ray sources are detected, of which one ("Source 1")
is fading with 3-sigma significance, and is therefore likely the GRB
afterglow. The position of this source is RA, Dec=11.5536, +24.3370
which is equivalent to:
RA (J2000): 00:46:12.86
Dec(J2000): +24:20:13.2
with an uncertainty of 5.0 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence).
This position is 1.3 arcsec from the Fermi/GBM position and 2.7 arcsec
from the OT position reported by Lipunov (GCN 23091) and Watson (GCN
23092).
The source is fading with alpha >2.2.
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis of the likely afterglow
are at http://www.swift.ac.uk/ToO_GRBs/00020812/Source1.php.
The results of the full analysis of the XRT observations are available
at http://www.swift.ac.uk/ToO_GRBs/00020812.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
- GCN Circular #23098
Daniele Bjørn Malesani (DAWN/NBI and DARK/NBI) and Ana Sagues (NOT) report:
We observed the candidate optical counterpart (Lipunov et al., GCN
23091; Watson et al., GCN 23092) of the Fermi GRB 180806A (Malacaria et
al., GCN 23095) using the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) equipped with
the AlFOSC camera.
In a single 300 s exposure centered on 2018 Aug 8.07 UT (27.09 hr after
the GRB), we detect the candidate afterglow with a magnitude r = 22.31
+- 0.10 AB, calibrated against nearby stars from the Pan-STARRS catalog.
The continued fading compared to previous reports (Lipunov et al., GCN
23091; Butler et al., GCN 23094; Watson et al., GCN 23096), as well as
the spatial coincidence with an X-ray source (Gibson et al., GCN 23097)
confirm the interpretation of this source as the optical afterglow of
GRB 180806A.
- GCN Circular #23101
A. D'Ai (INAF/Iasf-PA) reports on behalf of the Swift/XRT Team:
this is a correction to the recent GCN Circ 23097 (S.L. Gibson et al).
The angular distance between the “Source 1" position and the
Fermi/GBM final position was incorrectly reported.
The distance is 4.3 deg, not 1.3 arcsec.
We thank Alan Watson for spotting the error and we apologize for any inconvenience.
- GCN Circular #23119
A. Tsvetkova, S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, D. Frederiks,
M. Ulanov, D. Svinkin, A. Lysenko, A. Kozlova and T. Cline
on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report:
The long-duration GRB 180806A
(Fermi GBM detection: Malacaria et al., GCN 23095)
triggered Konus-Wind at T0=81544.19 s UT (22:39:04.190).
The burst light curve shows a single pulse with a total duration of ~20 s.
The emission is seen up to ~1.2 MeV.
As observed by Konus-Wind, the burst
had a fluence of 2.92(-0.36,+0.41)x10^-5 erg/cm2,
and a 64-ms peak energy flux, measured from T0+5.712 s,
of 5.52(-1.59,+1.66)x10^-6 erg/cm2/s
(both in the 20 keV - 10 MeV energy range).
The time-integrated spectrum of the burst
(measured from T0 to T0+7.424 s)
is best fit in the 20 keV - 16 MeV range
by the GRB (Band) model with the following parameters:
the low-energy photon index alpha = -0.76(-0.14,+0.16),
the high energy photon index beta = -2.56(-0.79,+0.32),
the peak energy Ep = 352(-53,+59) keV,
chi2 = 90/94 dof.
The Konus-Wind light curve of this GRB is available at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB180806_T81544/
All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level.
All the quoted values are preliminary.
- GCN Circular #23122
V. Sharma, A. Vibhute and D. Bhattacharya (IUCAA), V. Bhalerao (IIT-B), A. R. Rao (TIFR) and S. Vadawale (PRL) report on behalf of the Astrosat CZTI collaboration:
Analysis of AstroSat CZTI data showed the detection of a long GRB 180806A, which was also detected by Fermi-GBM (Malacaria C. et al., GCN 23095) and Konus-Wind (Tsvetkova A. et al., GCN 23119).
The source was clearly detected in the 40-200 keV energy range. The light curve shows multiple peaks of emission with strongest peak at 22:39:04.500 UT. The measured peak count rate is 994 cts/s above the background in combined data of four quadrants, with a total of 9327 cts. The local mean background count rate was 498 cts/s. Using cumulative rates, we measure a T90 of 25.8 s. In preliminary analysis, we find that 623 compton events are associated with this event.
It was also clearly detected in the CsI anticoincidence (Veto) detector in the 100-500 keV energy range.
CZTI GRB detections are reported regularly on the payload site at http://astrosat.iucaa.in/czti/?q=grb. CZTI is built by a TIFR-led consortium of institutes across India, including VSSC, ISAC, IUCAA, SAC and PRL. The Indian Space Research Organisation funded, managed and facilitated the project.
- GCN Circular #23157
A. D'Ai (IASF-PA) reports on behalf of the Swift/XRT team:
Swift has performed further observations of the field of the
Fermi/LAT-detected burst GRB 180806A (Malacaria et al., GCN 23095).
An additional 4.2 ks of data were collected between 11.4 days
and 12.0 days after the Fermi trigger.
Source 1, initially reported by Gibson et al. (GCN 23097)
as the likely X-ray counterpart, is no longer detected down to a 3-sigma
upper limit of 1.0e-2 ct s^-1. Source 1 position was also consistent with an
optically fading source (GCN 23091, 23092, 23094, 23096, 23098, 23101).
Source1 is therefore confirmed as the X-ray afterglow of GRB 180806A.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
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