GCN Circular 36725
Subject
X-ray transient EP240618a: Fermi/GBM non-detection
Date
2024-06-21T15:56:04Z (11 days ago)
From
mariaedvige.ravasio@ru.nl
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M. E. Ravasio (Radboud University) and P.G. Jonker (Radboud University) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
Following the detection of the fast X-ray transient EP240618a by the Einstein Probe WXT and FXT (Sun et al., GCN 36690), we inspected the Fermi/GBM daily data for the presence of a possible gamma-ray counterpart. Fermi was operational (it was not in the SAA) and the location of the source was visible (i.e. it was not Earth-occulted).
Inspecting CSPEC data of the 4 best source-angle detectors (n7, n6, nb, b1) in the energy range 8-900 keV (for n7, n6, nb) and 300-40000 keV (for b1), with a time resolution of 4 s, we found no significant gamma-ray source within the time interval [T0; T0+100] s (same duration reported by Sun et al., GCN 36690, where T0 = 2024-06-18T05:43:43).
Assuming a power-law model with a photon index of 2, the estimated upper limit to the flux in the energy range 10-1000 keV at the 90% confidence level over the time interval mentioned above is 8.5 x 10^-9 erg/cm^2/s.