GCN Circular 36895

Wen-Jun Tan,  Yong-Wei Dong, Jiang He, Yue Huang, Lu Li, Jiang-Tao Liu, Hao-Li Shi, Jian-Chao Sun, Chen-Wei Wang, Ping Wang, Bo-Bing Wu, Shao-Lin Xiong,  Li Zhang, Xiao-Yun Zhao, Shi-Jie Zheng, Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP)

report on behalf of the SVOM/GRM team:

During the commissioning phase, the SVOM/GRM was triggered by a long GRB 240716A at 2024-07-16T10:21:37.000 UT (T0) in-flight.

The real-time alert data and light curves produced were downlinked to the ground through the VHF system with low latency.

The light curve shows that this burst consists of a FRED-shape pulse with a duration of about 8 s, indicating that it is a long burst.

The GRM light curve can be found here:
http://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/svgrb240716A.png

The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA, China), National Center for Space Studies (CNES, France) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, China), which is dedicated to observing gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena in the energetic universe. GRM is developed by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of CAS.

The SVOM point of contact for this burst is: Wen-Jun Tan (IHEP)(tanwj@ihep.ac.cn)