GCN Circular 34523
Subject
GRID detection of GRB 230818A
Event
Date
2023-08-23T02:35:17Z (3 years ago)
From
GRID Student Team at Tsinghua University <grid@tsinghua.edu.cn>
Via
Web form
Chenyu Wang and Zirui Yang report on behalf of the GRID Collaboration:
The long-duration GRB 230818A (Fermi/GBM detection: GCN Circular 34478 and Swift/BAT detection: GCN Circular 34479 ) was observed with GRID-03B.
The detection was confirmed at the trigger time 2023-08-18T23:27:30 UTC. The measured burst duration (T90) in the 30-2000 keV range is approximately 8.75 ± 1.63 seconds..
GRID is a student-led project to monitor the transient gamma-ray sky with multiple detectors onboard different nanosatellites in the era of multi-messenger astronomy. For more information about GRID, please refer to the following references: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-019-09636-w and https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09819-4.