- GCN/BACODINE POSITION NOTICE
TITLE: GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE: Wed 15 Jan 20 11:51:41 UT
NOTICE_TYPE: Swift-BAT GRB Position
TRIGGER_NUM: 949361, Seg_Num: 0
GRB_RA: 56.454d {+03h 45m 49s} (J2000),
56.720d {+03h 46m 53s} (current),
55.791d {+03h 43m 10s} (1950)
GRB_DEC: +5.613d {+05d 36' 46"} (J2000),
+5.674d {+05d 40' 27"} (current),
+5.458d {+05d 27' 27"} (1950)
GRB_ERROR: 3.00 [arcmin radius, statistical only]
GRB_INTEN: 0 [cnts] Image_Peak=3105 [image_cnts]
TRIGGER_DUR: 64.000 [sec]
TRIGGER_INDEX: 20000 E_range: 15-50 keV
BKG_INTEN: 0 [cnts]
BKG_TIME: 0.00 SOD {00:00:00.00} UT
BKG_DUR: 0 [sec]
GRB_DATE: 18863 TJD; 15 DOY; 20/01/15
GRB_TIME: 42623.73 SOD {11:50:23.73} UT
GRB_PHI: -165.25 [deg]
GRB_THETA: 30.10 [deg]
SOLN_STATUS: 0x13
RATE_SIGNIF: 0.00 [sigma]
IMAGE_SIGNIF: 15.01 [sigma]
MERIT_PARAMS: +1 +0 +0 +6 +1 +4 +0 +0 +49 +0
SUN_POSTN: 296.71d {+19h 46m 51s} -21.17d {-21d 10' 01"}
SUN_DIST: 119.98 [deg] Sun_angle= -8.0 [hr] (East of Sun)
MOON_POSTN: 179.75d {+11h 59m 01s} +5.72d {+05d 43' 11"}
MOON_DIST: 122.00 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM: 73 [%]
GAL_COORDS: 181.73,-36.65 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
ECL_COORDS: 55.49,-13.90 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
COMMENTS: SWIFT-BAT GRB Coordinates.
COMMENTS: This is an image trigger. (The RATE_SIGNIF & BKG_{INTEN, TIME, DUR} are undefined.)
COMMENTS: A point_source was found.
COMMENTS: This does not match any source in the on-board catalog.
COMMENTS: This does not match any source in the ground catalog.
COMMENTS: This is a GRB.
COMMENTS: This trigger occurred at longitude,latitude = 210.16,18.06 [deg].
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- GCN NOTICE
TITLE: GCN/SWIFT NOTICE
NOTICE_DATE: Wed 15 Jan 20 11:54:18 UT
NOTICE_TYPE: Swift-BAT GRB Lightcurve
TRIGGER_NUM: 949361, Seg_Num: 0
GRB_RA: 56.454d {+03h 45m 49s} (J2000),
56.720d {+03h 46m 53s} (current),
55.791d {+03h 43m 10s} (1950)
GRB_DEC: +5.613d {+05d 36' 46"} (J2000),
+5.674d {+05d 40' 27"} (current),
+5.458d {+05d 27' 27"} (1950)
GRB_DATE: 18863 TJD; 15 DOY; 20/01/15
GRB_TIME: 42623.73 SOD {11:50:23.73} UT
TRIGGER_INDEX: 20000
GRB_PHI: -165.25 [deg]
GRB_THETA: 30.10 [deg]
DELTA_TIME: 0.00 [sec]
TRIGGER_DUR: 64.000 [sec]
SOLN_STATUS: 0x13
RATE_SIGNIF: 0.00 [sigma]
IMAGE_SIGNIF: 15.01 [sigma]
LC_URL: sw00949361000msb.lc
SUN_POSTN: 296.72d {+19h 46m 52s} -21.17d {-21d 10' 00"}
SUN_DIST: 119.98 [deg] Sun_angle= -8.0 [hr] (East of Sun)
MOON_POSTN: 179.78d {+11h 59m 07s} +5.71d {+05d 42' 35"}
MOON_DIST: 122.03 [deg]
MOON_ILLUM: 73 [%]
GAL_COORDS: 181.73,-36.65 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
ECL_COORDS: 55.49,-13.90 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the burst (or transient)
COMMENTS: SWIFT-BAT GRB Lightcurve.
COMMENTS:
COMMENTS: The next comments were copied from the BAT_POS Notice:
COMMENTS: This is an image trigger.
COMMENTS: A point_source was found.
COMMENTS: This does not match any source in the on-board catalog.
COMMENTS: This does not match any source in the ground catalog.
COMMENTS: This is a GRB.
COMMENTS: This trigger occurred at longitude,latitude = 210.16,18.06 [deg].
- GCN Circular #26770
V. Lipunov, E. Gorbovskoy, V.Kornilov, N.Tyurina, P.Balanutsa, A.Kuznetsov, F.Balakin,
V.Vladimirov, D. Vlasenko, I.Gorbunov, D.Zimnukhov, V.Senik, T.Pogrosheva,
D.Kuvshinov, D. Cheryasov
(Lomonosov Moscow State University, SAI, Physics Department),
R. Podesta, C.Lopez, F. Podesta, C.Francile
(Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar OAFA),
H.Levato
(Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio ICATE),
R. Rebolo, M. Serra
(The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias),
D. Buckley
(South African Astronomical Observatory),
O.A. Gres, N.M. Budnev, O.Ershova
(Irkutsk State University, API),
A. Tlatov, D. Dormidontov
(Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory),
V. Yurkov, A. Gabovich, Yu. Sergienko
(Blagoveschensk Educational State University)
MASTER-Amur robotic telescope (Global MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru, Lipunov et al., 2010, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2010, 30L) located in Russia (Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University) was pointed to the Swift GRB200115.49 (trigger No 949361,03h 45m 48.96s , +05d 36m 46.8s, R=0.05) errorbox 352 sec after notice time and 432 sec after trigger time at 2020-01-15 11:57:35 UT, with upper limit up to 17.0 mag. The observations began at zenith distance = 45 deg. The sun altitude is -38.0 deg.
The galactic latitude b = -36 deg., longitude l = 182 deg.
Real time updated cover map and OT discovered available here:
https://master.sai.msu.ru/site/master2/observ.php?id=1261497
We obtain a following upper limits.
Tmid-T0 | Site |Filt.| Expt. | Limit| Comment
_________|_____________________|_____|_______|______|________
462 | MASTER-Amur | P/ | 60 | 16.7 |
542 | MASTER-Amur | P/ | 60 | 17.0 |
621 | MASTER-Amur | P/ | 60 | 17.0 |
The observation and reduction will continue.
The message may be cited.
- GCN Circular #26771
S. B. Cenko (GSFC), E. Ambrosi (INAF-IASFPA), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA),
V. D'Elia (SSDC), J.D. Gropp (PSU), N. J. Klingler (PSU) and
K. L. Page (U Leicester) report on behalf of the Neil Gehrels Swift
Observatory Team:
At 11:50:23 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and
located GRB 200115A (trigger=949361). Swift did not slew to the burst.
The BAT on-board calculated location is RA, Dec 56.454, +5.613 which is
RA(J2000) = 03h 45m 49s
Dec(J2000) = +05d 36' 46"
with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including
systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve showed a complex
structure with a duration of about 300 sec. The peak count rate
was ~2600 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~101 sec after the trigger.
Due to observations at a higher merit related to the follow-up
of the GW event S200115j, Swift will not slew to the BAT position.
There will thus be no XRT or UVOT data for this trigger.
Burst Advocate for this burst is S. B. Cenko (brad.cenko AT nasa.gov).
Please contact the BA by email if you require additional information
regarding Swift followup of this burst. In extremely urgent cases, after
trying the Burst Advocate, you can contact the Swift PI by phone (see
Swift TOO web site for information: http://www.swift.psu.edu/)
- GCN Circular #26772
Z.P. Zhu, D. Xu, X. Liu, B.Y. Yu, Y. Ma (NAOC), X. Gao (Urumqi No.1
Senior High School) report:
We observed the field of GRB 200115A (Cenko et al., GCN 26771) using the
0.6m NEXT telescope located at Nanshan, Xinjiang, China. Observations
started at 12:11:17 UT on 2020-01-15 (i.e., 20.9 min after the BAT
trigger), and a series of 300 s R-band frames have been obtained.
Observations are ongoing.
No optical transient is detected in the Swift BAT's error circle from
initial frames, down to a limiting magnitude of m(R) ~ 20.0, calibrated
with the nearby SDSS field.
- GCN Circular #26776
M. Niwano, K. L. Murata, M. Oeda, K. Shiraishi, K. Iida, R. Adachi, F.
Ogawa, S. Toma, R. Hosokawa, N. Nakamura, Y. Yatsu, and N.
Kawai(TokyoTech) report on behalf of the MITSuME collaboration:
We searched for the optical counterpart of GRB 200115A (S. B. Cenko et
al.,GCN Circular #26771) with the optical three color (g', Rc, and Ic)
CCD cameras attached to the MITSuME 50 cm telescope of Okayama
Astrophysical Observatory, Okayama, Japan.
The observation started on 11:52:38.68 UT. We did not find any new point
sources within the Swift/BAT circle (S. B. Cenko et al., GCN Circular
#26771) in all three bands.
We obtained the 5-sigma limits as follows.
T0+[sec] MID-UT T-EXP[sec] 5-sigma limits
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
135 12:23:04.98 3060 g'>18.3, Rc>17.6, Ic>17.2
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
T0+ : Elapsed time after the burst
T-EXP: Total Exposure time
We used UCAC4 catalog for flux calibration.
The magnitudes are expressed in the AB system.
The images were processed in real-time through the MITSuME GPU reduction
pipeline (Niwano et al. ,in prep; https://github.com/MNiwano/Eclair)
- GCN Circular #26780
S. Laha (GSFC/UMBC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. R. Cummings (CPI),
H. A. Krimm (NSF), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC),
K. Page (UL), D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (AGU),
M. Stamatikos (OSU), T. N. Ukwatta (LANL) (i.e. the Swift-BAT team):
Using the data set from T-60 to T+243 sec from the recent telemetry downlink,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 200115A (trigger #949361)
(Page, et al., GCN Circ. 26771). The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 56.453, 5.607 deg, which is
RA(J2000) = 03h 45m 48.7s
Dec(J2000) = +05d 36' 26.0"
with an uncertainty of 1.1 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 82%.
The mask-weighted light curve starts before T-50 sec, picking up at T-30 sec,
continued increasing until the peak at T+100 sec, a couple weak following peaks,
and having weak and flat emission out past the end of data at T+240 sec.
T90 (15-350 keV) is 158.4 +- 32.6 sec (estimated error including systematics).
The time-averaged spectrum from T-40.29 to T+233.12 sec is best fit by a power law
with an exponential cutoff. This fit gives a photon index 1.29 +- 0.24,
and Epeak of 75.0 +- 17.5 keV (chi squared 40.88 for 56 d.o.f.). For this
model the total fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 1.0 +- 0.0 x 10^-5 erg/cm2
and the 1-sec peak flux measured from T+99.75 sec in the 15-150 keV band is
3.6 +- 0.3 ph/cm2/sec. A fit to a simple power law gives a photon index
of 1.77 +- 0.06 (chi squared 53.76 for 57 d.o.f.). All the quoted errors
are at the 90% confidence level.
The results of the batgrbproduct analysis are available at
http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/notices_s/949361/BA/
- GCN Circular #26790
A. Pozanenko (IKI), A. Volnova (IKI), E. Klunko (ISTP), K. Kamyshnikov
(HSE), N. Pankov (HSE), E. Mazaeva (IKI), S. Belkin (IKI) report on
behalf of GRB IKI FuN:
We observed the field of GRB 200115A (Cenko et al. GCN 26771) with
AZT-33IK telescope of Sayan observatory (Mondy) starting on Jan. 15 (UT)
11:55:00, i.e. 4.6 minutes after GRB trigger. Within BAT
ground-calculated position (Laha et al. GCN 26780) we detected the
only one unidentified object at the coordinates (J2000) 03:45:46.58
+05:36:36 with uncertainty of 0.5 arcsec in both coordinates. The object
is absent in SDSS DR12. At this time we cannot confirm variability of
the object. We suggest the object is the optical afterglow of GRB
200115A. Preliminary photometry of the afterglow candidate is following.
Date UT start t-T0 Filter Exp. OT Err. UL(3sigma)
(mid, days) (s)
2020-01-15 11:55:00 0.02455 R 30*120 20.9 0.2 22.1
The photometry is based on the nearby SDSS DR12 stars
SDSS R_Lupton
J034551.63+053704.5 17.138 0.016
J034547.51+053555.6 18.214 0.029
J034543.70+053549.4 17.851 0.022
- GCN Circular #26792
Rosa L. Becerra (UNAM), Margarita Pereyra (UNAM), Nat Butler (ASU), Alan M.
Watson (UNAM), Eleonora Troja (GSFC/UMD), Diego Gonzalez (UNAM),
Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC/UMD), William H. Lee (UNAM), and Tanner Wolfram
(ASU), Simone Dichiara (GSFC/UMD) report:
We observed the field of GRB 200115A detected by BAT/Swift (Cenko, GCN
Circ. 26771), with the DDOTI/OAN wide-field imager at the Observatorio
Astronómico Nacional on Sierra San Pedro Mártir (
http://ddoti.astroscu.unam.mx) from 2020-01-16 02:01 to 2020-01-16 02:19
UTC (14.2 to 14.48 hours after the event).
We observed a region of 6.8 degrees in RA by 10.2 degrees in declination
centered on the peak of the Swift-BAT on-board calculated location
03:45:48.7 +05:36:26.0 J2000. This region contains about 70 square degrees.
We obtained about 16 minutes total exposure across the region.
We calibrated our images against the APASS catalog. Our 3-sigma limiting
magnitude is w = 19.80 for the enhanced Swift-BAT error region (Laha et
al., GCN Circ. 26780). Comparing to the USNO-B1 and SDSS DR9 catalogs we do
not detect any uncataloged source to our 3-sigma limit.
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional in San Pedro
Mártir.
- GCN Circular #26801
M. Nakamura, T. Sakamoto (AGU)
We observed the field of GRB 200115A detected by Swift
(Cenko et al., GCN Circ. 26771) with the 14-inch AGU Robotic
Optical Monitor for Astrophysical object - Narrow (AROMA-N)
located at the Sagamihara campus of Aoyama Gakuin University.
60 images of 60 sec exposures were taken in the R filter
starting from January 15 12:14:42 (UT) about 24 minutes
after the trigger and stopped on January 15 13:27:55 (UT).
We do not detect the optical afterglow both in the individual
images and the stacked image. The estimated five sigma
upper limit of the combined image (total exposure of 3600 sec)
is ~18.1 mag using the USNO-B1 catalog.
- GCN Circular #26809
T. Tamura (Kanagawa U),
A. Yoshida, T. Sakamoto, V. Pal'shin, S. Sugita (AGU),
Y. Kawakubo (LSU), K. Yamaoka (Nagoya U), S. Nakahira (RIKEN),
Y. Asaoka, S. Torii (Waseda U), Y. Shimizu (Kanagawa U),
N. Cannady (GSFC/UMBC), M. L. Cherry (LSU),
S. Ricciarini (U of Florence), P. S. Marrocchesi (U of Siena),
and the CALET collaboration:
The very long GRB 200115A detected by Swift (Cenko et al., GCN Circ. 26771,
Laha et al., GCN Circ.26780; https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/other/200115A.gcn3)
triggered the CALET Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (CGBM) at 11:52:05.424 UTC
on 15 January 2020. The burst signal was seen by all CGBM detectors.
Because of a problem in one of the ground alert processing script, the GCN
notice was not distributed automatically for this event.
The burst light curve shows a multi-peaked structure which
starts at T-206 sec, peaks at T-3 sec and ends at T+221 sec.
The T90 and T50 durations measured by the SGM data are 347 +- 46 sec
and 104 +- 29 sec (40-1000 keV), respectively.
The ground processed light curve is available at
http://cgbm.calet.jp/cgbm_trigger/ground/1263124124/
The CALET data used in this analysis are provided by
the Waseda CALET Operation Center located at the Waseda University.
- GCN Circular #26818
A. Volnova (IKI), A. Pozanenko (IKI), E. Klunko (ISTP), K. Kamyshnikov
(HSE), N. Pankov (HSE), E. Mazaeva (IKI), S. Belkin (IKI) report on
behalf of GRB IKI FuN:
We observed the field of GRB 200115A (Cenko et al., GCN 26771) with
AZT-33IK telescope of Sayan observatory (Mondy) starting on Jan. 16 (UT)
12:30:28. Within BAT ground-calculated position (Laha et al. GCN
26780) we do not detect any unidentified objects in comparison with
SDSS-DR2. We also not detected the afterglow candidate reported after
our first epoch observation (Pozanenko et al., GCN 26790).
We report the correction of R-magnitude of the afterglow candidate.
The result presented below overrides previously reported (GCN 26790)
R-magnitude. We apologize for the typo and possible inconvenience.
Due to shallow upper limit in the second epoch observation we cannot
confirm variability of the afterglow candidate.
Date UT start t-T0 Filter Exp. OT Err. UL(3sigma)
(mid, days) (s)
2020-01-15 11:55:00 0.02455 R 30*120 21.9 0.2 22.1
2020-01-16 12:30:28 1.05039 R 32*120 n/d n/d 21.6
The photometry is based on the nearby SDSS DR12 stars
SDSS R_Lupton
J034551.63+053704.5 17.138 0.016
J034547.51+053555.6 18.214 0.029
J034543.70+053549.4 17.851 0.022
- GCN Circular #26872
A. Volnova (IKI), V. Kim (AFIF), A. Pozanenko (IKI), M. Krugov (AFIF),
E. Mazaeva (IKI), S. Belkin (IKI) report on behalf of larger GRB IKI
FuN collaboration:
We observed the field of GRB 200115A (Cenko et al., GCN 26771) with
AZT-20 1.5 m telescope of Assy-Turgen observatory starting on Jan. 18
(UT) 16:55:27 in r'-filter. We do not detect the afterglow candidate
(GCNs 26790, 26818) up to r'=22.8 (AB) and hence we consider the object
found in BAT error circle (Cenko et al., GCN 26771) as the optical
afterglow of GRB 200215A.
Photometry of the field is following.
Date UT start t-T0 Filter Exp. OT UL (3sigma)
(mid, days) (s)
2019-10-18 16:55:27 3.22608 r' 13*180 n/d 22.8
The photometry is based on the nearby SDSS-DR12 stars.
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