Gamma-ray Burst 240107A

(All information courtesy of the instrument teams.)

Previous IAU Circulars

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• GCN Circular #35495
  T. Kurihara (JAXA), H. Negoro, M. Nakajima, K. Kobayashi, M. Tanaka, Y. Soejima, Y. Kudo (Nihon U.), T. Mihara, T. Kawamuro, S. Yamada, T. Tamagawa, N. Kawai, M. Matsuoka (RIKEN), T. Sakamoto, M. Serino, S. Sugita, H. Hiramatsu, H. Nishikawa, A. Yoshida (AGU), Y. Tsuboi, S. Urabe, S. Nawa, N. Nemoto, E.Goto (Chuo U.), M. Shidatsu, Y. Niida (Ehime U.), I. Takahashi, M. Niwano, S. Sato, N. Higuchi, Y. Yatsu (Tokyo Tech), S. Nakahira, S. Ueno, H. Tomida, M. Ishikawa, S. Ogawa (JAXA), Y. Ueda, K. Setoguchi, T. Yoshitake, Y. Nakatani, Y. Okada (Kyoto U.), M. Yamauchi, Y. Hagiwara, Y. Umeki, Y. Otsuki (Miyazaki U.), K. Yamaoka (Nagoya U.), Y. Kawakubo (LSU), M. Sugizaki (NAOC), and W. Iwakiri (Chiba U.)
  The MAXI/GSC nova alert system triggered on a bright uncatalogued X-ray transient source at 19:15:47 UT on January 7, 2023. Assuming that the source flux was constant over the transit, we obtain the source position at (R.A., Dec) = (298.014 deg, -68.228 deg) = (19 52 03, -68 13 39) (J2000) with a 90% C.L. statistical error of 0.41 deg and an additional systematic uncertainty of 0.1 deg (90% containment radius). The X-ray flux averaged over the scan was 114 +- 24 mCrab (4.0-10.0keV, 1 sigma error). Without assumptions on the source constancy, we obtain a rectangular error box for the transient source with the following corners:

  (R.A., Dec) = (296.278, -67.736) deg = (19 45 06, -67 44 09) (J2000)
  (R.A., Dec) = (296.022, -68.496) deg = (19 44 05, -68 29 45) (J2000)
  (R.A., Dec) = (303.762, -68.679) deg = (20 15 02, -68 40 44) (J2000)
  (R.A., Dec) = (303.766, -67.913) deg = (20 15 03, -67 54 46) (J2000)
  

  There was no significant excess flux in the previous transit at 17:42 UT and in the next transit at 20:48 UT with an upper limit of 20 mCrab for each.
• GCN Circular #35503
  J. Joshi (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 CIFT framework (Sharma et al., 2021, JApA, 42, 73) showed the detection of a long-duration GRB 240107A which was also detected by MAXI-GSC (Kurihara et al., GCN Circ. 35495).
  The source was clearly detected in the CsI anticoincidence (Veto) detector in the 100-500 keV energy range. The light curve showed multiple peaks of emission with the strongest peak at 2024-01-07 19:16:32.4 UTC. The measured peak count rate associated with the burst is 191 (+66, -13) counts/s above the background in the combined data of three quadrants (out of four), with a total of 6807 (+1623, -1781) counts. The local mean background count rate was 1088 (+3, -4) counts/s. We measure a T90 of 160 (+18, -10) 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
• GCN Circular #35544
  M. Dafcikova, J. Ripa (Masaryk U.), A. Pal (Konkoly Observatory), N. Werne= r (Masaryk U.), M. Ohno (Hiroshima U.), L. Meszaros, B. Csak (Konkoly Obs= ervatory), H. Takahashi (Hiroshima U.), F. Munz , M. Topinka, F. Hroch, N. = Husarikova, J.-P. Breuer (Masaryk U.), J. Hudec, J. Kapus, M. Frajt, M. Rez= enov (Spacemanic s.r.o), R. Laszlo (Needronix), G. Galgoczi (Wigner Researc= h Center/Eotvos U.), N. Uchida (ISAS/JAXA), T. Enoto (Kyoto U.), Zs. Frei (= Eotvos U.), Y. Fukazawa, K. Hirose, H. Matake (Hiroshima U.), S. Hisadomi (= Nagoya U.), Y. Ichinohe (Rikkyo U.), L. L. Kiss (Konkoly Observatory), T. = Mizuno (Hiroshima U.), K. Nakazawa (Nagoya U.), H. Odaka (Univ of Tokyo), K= . Torigoe (Hiroshima U.), P. Svoboda, V. Daniel, J. Dudas, M. Junas, J. Gro= mes (VZLU), I. Vertat (FEL ZCU) -- the VZLUSAT-2/GRB payload collaboration= .
  The long-duration GRB 240107A (MAXI/GSC detection: GCN 35495; AstroSat dete= ction: GCN 35503; Fermi/GBM detection: trigger no. 726347794; INTEGRAL/SPI-= ACS peak detection at 2024-01-07 ~19:16:45 UT) was detected by the GRB dete= ctor on board of the VZLUSAT-2 3U CubeSat (https://www.vzlusat2.cz/en/).
  The data acquisition was performed by the GRB detector unit no. 0. The dete= ction was confirmed at the peak time 2024-01-07 19:17:17 UTC. The T90 durat= ion is 47 s and the significance during T90 reaches 10 sigma.
  The light curve obtained by VZLUSAT-2 is available here: https://vzlusat2.konkoly.hu/static/share/GRB240107A_GCN_VZLUSAT2.pdf
  All VZLUSAT-2 detections are listed at: https://monoceros.physics.muni.cz/hea/VZLUSAT-2/ The GRB detectors on VZLUSAT-2 are a demonstration payload for a future CubeSat constellation (Werner et al. Proc. SPIE 2018). Two GRB modules of VZLUSAT-2 are placed in a perpendicular manner and each consists of a 75 x 75 x 5 mm3 CsI scintillator read out by a SiPM array, covering the energy range from ~30 keV to ~1000 keV. VZLUSAT-2 was launched on 2022 January 13 from Cape Canaveral.