GCN Circular 31397
Subject
GECAM observation of a burst from SGR J1555.2-5402
Date
2022-01-07T09:32:07Z (3 years ago)
From
Y Q Zhang at IHEP <yqzhang@ihep.ac.cn>
Y. Q. Zhang, S. Xiao, S. L. Xiong, C. Cai, P. Zhang,
C. Y. Li, S. L. Xie, X. Y. Zhao, Y. Huang, X. Y. Song,
J. C. Liu, Y. Zhao, Z. W. Guo, C. Zheng, W. C. Xue, C. W. Wang,
Q. B. Yi, B. X. Zhang, W. X. Peng, R. Qiao, D. Y. Guo, X. B. Li,
X. Ma, L. M. Song, P. Wang, J. Wang, Z. Zhang, S. J. Zheng, W. Chen,
J. J. He, G. Y. Zhao, Y. Q. Du, H. Wu, J. Liang, Q. Luo, X. L. Zhang,
H. M. Zhang, Z. H. An, M. Gao, K. Gong, B. Li, C. Li, J. H. Li,
X. Q. Li, Y. G. Li, X. H. Liang, X. J. Liu, Y. Q. Liu, X. L. Sun,
Y. L. Tuo, J. Z. Wang, X. Y. Wen, Y. B. Xu, Y. P. Xu, S. Yang,
C. Y. Zhang, D. L. Zhang, Fan Zhang, Fei Zhang,
X. Zhou, F. J. Lu, S. N. Zhang (IHEP)
report on behalf of GECAM team:
During the commissioning phase, GECAM-B was triggered in-flight by
a bright short burst from SGR J1555.2-5402 at 2022-01-06T13:33:47.500 UTC (T0).
According to the GECAM-B light curves in about 15-65 keV, this burst mainly
consists of a single pulse with a duration about 100 ms.
The GECAM light curve could be found here:
http://twiki.ihep.ac.cn/pub/GECAM/GRBList/gecamb_lc_grd_all_combine_95175227.png
GECAM-B localized this burst to the following position (J2000):
Ra: 261.9 deg
Dec: -46.7 deg
Err: 13.4 deg (1-sigma, statistical only)
The current systematic error of location is estimated to be several degrees
which could be minimized by the ongoing calibration.
The location given by
GECAM-B alone is consistent with SGR J1555.2-5402 within the error.
In addition, according to our multiple-mission joint analysis system
(ETJASMIN, S. Xiao et al., submitted to MNRAS, S. Xiao et al., 2021, ApJ, 920 43)
using GECAM-B and Fermi/GBM public data, this burst is localized to an annulus which is
very consistent with SGR J1555.2-5402.
The GECAM-GBM joint location could be found here:
http://twiki.ihep.ac.cn/pub/GECAM/GRBList/SGR20220106T133347.500-JointLoc.png
Please note that all GECAM results here are preliminary. The final analysis
will be published in journal papers or GECAM online catalog.
Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor
(GECAM) mission consists of two small satellites (GECAM-A and GECAM-B) in
Low Earth Orbit (600 km, 29 deg), launched on Dec 10, 2020 (Beijing Time),
which was funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).