GCN Circular 35835
Subject
Konus-Wind detection of GRB 240225B (long)
Date
2024-02-29T14:46:36Z (10 months ago)
From
Dmitry Frederiks at Ioffe Institute <fred@mail.ioffe.ru>
Via
legacy email
D. Frederiks, A.Lysenko, A. Ridnaia, D. Svinkin,
A. Tsvetkova, M. Ulanov, and T. Cline,
on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report:
GRB 240225B (MAXI/GCS detection: Nakajima et al., GCN 35796;
AstroSat CZTI detection: Joshi al., GCN 35798)
triggered Konus-Wind (KW) at T0=72727.251 s UT (20:12:07.251),
i.e., ~3.5 min before the MAXI trigger.
The burst light curve shows a multi-peaked emission
pulse, which starts at ~T0 - 2 s, peaks around ~T0 + 6 s,
and has a total duration of ~35 s.
The emission is seen up to ~3 MeV.
The Konus-Wind light curve of this GRB is available at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB240225_T72727/
As observed by Konus-Wind, the burst had
a fluence of (2.16 ± 0.35)x10^-5 erg/cm^2 and
a 64-ms peak energy flux, measured from T0 + 6.144 s,
of (2.87 ± 0.41)x10^-6 erg/cm^2/s (both in the 20 keV - 10 MeV energy range).
A time-averaged spectrum (measured from T0 to T0+41.216 s)
is best fit in the 20 keV - 15 MeV range
by a GRB (Band) function with the following model parameters:
the low-energy photon index alpha = -1.37 (-0.14,+0.15),
the high energy photon index beta = -2.74 (-7.26,+0.43),
the peak energy Ep = 270 (-43,+64) keV,
chi2 = 107/97 dof.
A spectrum near the peak count rate (measured from T0 to T0+8.448 s)
is best fit in the 20 keV - 15 MeV range
by a GRB (Band) function with the following model parameters:
the low-energy photon index alpha = -0.85 (-0.110,+0.10),
the high energy photon index beta = -2.43 (-0.55,+0.24),
the peak energy Ep = 287 (-47,+59) keV,
chi2 = 75/79 dof.
Assuming the redshift z=0.946 (Schneider et al., GCN 35832)
and a standard cosmology with H_0 = 67.3 km/s/Mpc, Omega_M = 0.315,
and Omega_Lambda = 0.685 (Planck Collaboration, 2014),
we estimate the burst isotropic energy release E_iso to (5.38 ± 0.95)x10^52 erg,
the isotropic peak luminosity L_iso to (1.87 ± 0.27)x10^52 erg/s,
the rest-frame peak energy of the time-integrated spectrum Ep,i,z to ~525 keV,
and the rest-frame peak energy at the peak of the emission Ep,p,z to ~558 keV.
With the obtained estimates, GRB 240225B is inside 68% prediction bands for
both 'Amati' and 'Yonetoku' relations derived for the sample of >300 long
KW GRBs with known redshifts (Tsvetkova et al., 2017; Tsvetkova et al., 2021),
see http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB240225_T72727/GRB240225B_rest_frame.pdf
All the quoted errors are estimated at the 68% confidence level.
All the presented results are preliminary.