GCN Circular 35037
Subject
GRB 231115A: a short hard GRB detected by IBAS, poistionally coincident with M82
Date
2023-11-15T16:26:24Z (6 months ago)
From
Diego Gotz at CEA <diego.gotz@cea.fr>
Via
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S.Mereghetti (INAF, IASF-Milano), D.Gotz (CEA, Saclay), C.Ferrigno, E.Bozzo, V.Savchenko (ISDC, Versoix), L.Ducci (IAAT, Germany and ISDC, Versoix) and J.Borkowski (CAMK, Torun) report:
a short hard burst lasting about 150 ms has been detected by IBAS in the IBIS/ISGRI data at 15:36:22 UT of November 15, 2023.
The refined coordinates (J2000) are:
R.A.= 149.000901 [degrees]
DEC.= 69.680130 [degrees]
with an uncertainty of 2 arcmin (90% c.l.).
We note that this position is consistent with the galaxy M82, so this event, which also triggered Fermi/GBM, may be due to a magnetar giant flare or to a nearby merger. So we encourage follow-up at other wavelengths.
A plot of the light curve will be posted at
http://ibas.iasf-milano.inaf.it/IBAS_Results.html