GCN Circular 36900
Subject
GRB 240718A: SVOM/GRM observation
Date
2024-07-18T11:47:03Z (4 months ago)
From
Chenwei Wang at IHEP <cwwang@ihep.ac.cn>
Via
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SVOM/GRM team: Yan-Ting Zhang, Chen-Wei Wang, Yong-Wei Dong, Jiang-Tao Liu, Min Gao, Hao-Xuan Guo, Jiang He, Yue Huang, Lu Li, Yong-Ye Li, Hong-Wei Liu, Xin Liu, Hao-Li Shi, Li-Ming Song, Jian-Chao Sun, You-Li Tuo, Hao-Xi Wang, Jin Wang, Jin-Zhou Wang, Ping Wang, Rui-Jie Wang, Yu-Xi Wang, Bo-Bing Wu, Shao-Lin Xiong, Jian-Ying Ye, Yi-Tao Yin, Wen-Hui Yu, Fan Zhang, Li Zhang, Peng Zhang, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Yan-Ting Zhang, Shu-Min Zhao, Xiao-Yun Zhao, Shi-Jie Zheng (IHEP), Maria-Grazia Bernardini (LUPM/INAF-OAB), Laurent Bouchet (IRAP), David Corre (CEA), Patrick Maeght (LUPM), Frédéric Piron (LUPM), Jingwei Wang (IAP)
SVOM JSWG: Jian-Yan Wei (NAOC), Bertrand Cordier (CEA), Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP), Stéphane Basa (LAM), Jean-Luc Attéia (IRAP), Arnaud Claret (CEA), Zi-Gao Dai (USTC), Frédéric Daigne (IAP), Jin-Song Deng (NAOC), Andrea Goldwurm (APC), Diego Götz (CEA), Xu-Hui Han (NAOC), Cyril Lachaud (APC), En-Wei Liang (GXU), Yu-Lei Qiu (NAOC), Susanna Vergani (Obs.Paris), Jing Wang (NAOC), Chao Wu (NAOC), Li-Ping Xin (NAOC), Bing Zhang (UNLV)
report on behalf of the SVOM team:
During the commissioning phase, the SVOM/GRM was triggered in-flight by GRB 240718A at 2024-07-18T06:29:00.800 UT (T0), which was also observed by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN 36898; Preis et al., GCN 36899).
The real-time alert data and light curves of SVOM/GRM were downlinked to the ground through the VHF system with low latency. The light curves show that this burst consists of multiple pulses with duration of about 15 s.
The SVOM/GRM light curves can be found at:
http://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/svgrb240718A.png
The SVOM/GRM in-flight localization of this burst is (J2000):
RA: 234.4 deg
DEC: -10.8 deg
Error: 1.8 deg (1sigma, statistical only)
We caution that the calibration of SVOM/GRM is undergoing and this localization is subject to systematic errors. However, we note that this GRM location is broadly consistent with the Fermi/GBM. In addition, the position of this burst, as determined by GRM, is not located inside the ECLAIRs field of view.
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: Yan-Ting Zhang (IHEP) (ytzhang@ihep.ac.cn)