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GCN Circular 30363

Subject
GRB 210702A: AGILE detection
Date
2021-07-03T10:43:45Z (3 years ago)
From
Alessandro Ursi at INAF/IAPS <alessandro.ursi@gmail.com>
A. Ursi (INAF/IAPS), C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia (SSDC, and INAF/OAR), M.
Tavani (INAF/IAPS, and Univ. Roma Tor Vergata), A. Argan, M. Cardillo, C.
Casentini, Y. Evangelista, G. Piano (INAF/IAPS), F. Lucarelli (SSDC, and
INAF/OAR), A. Bulgarelli, V. Fioretti, F. Fuschino, N. Parmiggiani
(INAF/OAS-Bologna), M. Marisaldi (INAF/OAS-Bologna, and Bergen University),
M. Pilia, A. Trois (INAF/OA-Cagliari), F. Longo (Univ. Trieste and INFN
Trieste), I. Donnarumma (ASI), A. Giuliani (INAF/IASF-Mi), report on behalf
of the AGILE Team:

The AGILE satellite detected the long GRB 210702A at T0 = 2021-07-02
19:07:13 s (UTC), reported by Swift (GCNs #30351, #30352, #30356, #30358)
and CALET (#30362).

The burst is clearly visible in the AGILE scientific ratemeters of the
SuperAGILE (SA; 20-60 keV), MiniCALorimeter (MCAL; 0.4-100 MeV), and
AntiCoincidence (AC; 50-200 keV) detectors. The event lasted about ~32 s
and it released a total number of 1630 counts in the SA detector (above a
background rate of 50 Hz), 40500 counts in the MCAL detector (above a
background rate of 1440 Hz), and 74310 counts in the AC detector (above a
background rate of 3610 Hz). The AGILE ratemeter light curves can be found
at http://www.agilescienceapp.it/notices/GRB210702A_AGILE_RM.png . The
event also triggered a partial high time resolution MCAL data acquisition.

Additional analysis of AGILE data is in progress.
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