GCN Circular 33606
Subject
GRB 230410B: VZLUSAT-2 detection
Date
2023-04-11T20:58:30Z (a year ago)
From
Marianna Dafcikova at Masaryk University <500025@mail.muni.cz>
M. Dafcikova, J. Ripa (Masaryk U.), A. Pal (Konkoly Observatory), N.
Werner (Masaryk U.), M. Ohno (Hiroshima U.), L. Meszaros, B. Csak
(Konkoly Observatory), H. Takahashi (Hiroshima U.), F. Munz , M. Topinka,
F. Hroch, N. Husarikova, J.-P. Breuer (Masaryk U.), J. Hudec, J. Kapus, M.
Frajt, M. Rezenov (Spacemanic s.r.o), R. Laszlo (Needronix), G. Galgoczi
(Wigner Research 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. Gromes (VZLU), I. Vertat (FEL ZCU) -- the
VZLUSAT-2/GRB payload collaboration.
The short duration GRB 230410B (AGILE/MCAL detection: GCN 33604; GECAM-B
detection: trigger no. 172) was detected by the GRB detector on board of
the VZLUSAT-2 3U CubeSat (https://www.vzlusat2.cz/en/).
The data acquisition was performed by the GRB detector unit no. 1 with a
temporal resolution of 1 s. The light curve shows a spike within one bin at
2023-04-10 04:31:18 UTC. The detection significance reaches 9 sigma.
The light curve obtained by VZLUSAT-2 is available here:
https://vzlusat2.konkoly.hu/static/share/GRB230410B_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.