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GCN Circular 33946

Subject
GRB 230608A: AGILE detection
Date
2023-06-09T11:20:47Z (a year ago)
From
Francesco Longo at U of Trieste,INFN Trieste <franzlongo1969@gmail.com>
F. Longo (Univ. Trieste and INFN Trieste), F. Verrecchia, C. Pittori
(SSDC, and INAF/OAR),
M. Tavani (INAF/IAPS, and Univ. Roma Tor Vergata),  C. Casentini (INAF/IAPS),
A. Ursi (ASI and INAF/IAPS), A. Argan, M. Cardillo, Y. Evangelista, L. Foffano,
G. Piano (INAF/IAPS), A. Addis, L. Baroncelli, A. Bulgarelli, G. Panebianco,
A. Di Piano, V. Fioretti, N. Parmiggiani (INAF/OAS-Bologna), F.
Lucarelli (SSDC, and INAF/OAR),
M. Marisaldi (INAF/OAS-Bologna, and Bergen University),  M. Pilia, A.
Trois (INAF/OA-Cagliari),
I. Donnarumma, E. Menegoni (ASI), A. Giuliani (INAF/IASF-Mi), and P.
Tempesta (TeleSpazio)
report on behalf of the AGILE Team:

The AGILE satellite detected the GRB 230608A at T0 = 2023-06-08
18:34:36 s (UTC),
detected also by INTEGRAL SPI-ACS (trigger no.10282).

The burst is clearly visible in the AGILE scientific ratemeters of the
MiniCALorimeter (MCAL; 0.4-100 MeV), and AntiCoincidence (AC; 50-200 keV)
detectors.

The event lasted about 5 s and it released a total number
of 3966 counts in the MCAL detector (above a background rate of 532 Hz)
and 19256 counts in the AC-Top detector (above a background rate of 2875 Hz).
The AGILE ratemeters light curves can be found at

http://www.agilescienceapp.it/notices/GRB230608A_AGILE_RM_ND.png

Additional analysis of AGILE data is in progress.


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