GCN Circular 34632
Subject
GRB 230812B: Chandra late-time detection of the X-ray afterglow
Date
2023-09-06T17:17:12Z (8 months ago)
From
Utkarsh Pathak at IIT Bombay <utkarshpathak.07@gmail.com>
Via
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U. Pathak (IITB), A. Salgundi (IITB), G. Waratkar (IITB), V. Swain (IITB), V. Bhalerao (IITB), B. Cenko (UMD), G. Dewangan (IUCAA), T. Ahumada (UMD), I. Andreoni (UMCP), G C Anupama (IIA), D. Bhattacharya (IUCAA), A. Jaodand (CIT), M. Kasliwal (CIT), D. Perley (LJMU), G. Srinivasaragavan (UMCP), P. Chandra (NRAO) report on behalf of a larger collaboration
We carried out a Chandra DDT observation of GRB 230812B beginning on September 3, 2023, at 01:04:23 UT with ACIS-S as part of program 24408929 (PI: Pathak) for 21.39 ks. The observation began ~21.25 days after the GRB trigger.
Within the XRT localization (Page et al., GCN Circ. 34394), we detect a single point source at RA, DEC = 16:36:31.5221, 47:51:32.353 with an uncertainty of 0.4" from ZTF candidate afterglow (Salgundi et al., GCN Circ. 34397). The Chandra detection is consistent with decay rate as seen in XRT afterglow (Beardmore et al., GCN Circ. 34400) and the calculated absorbed flux for 0.3-10 keV is 7.33 (-1.35, +1.55) x 10^(-14) erg cm^-2 s^-1.
We thank the CXO staff - in particular Patrick Slane, Dan Schwartz, Harvey Tananbaum, Steiner James, Doug Swartz, and Malgorzata Sobolewska for rapidly approving and planning this observation.