GCN Circular 37112

SVOM/GRM team: Wen-Jun Tan, Shi-Jie Zheng, Yong-Wei Dong, Jiang-Tao Liu, Jian-Chao Sun, Chen-Wei Wang, Jiang He, Min Gao, Hao-Xuan Guo, Yue Huang, Lu Li, Yong-Ye Li, Hong-Wei Liu, Xin Liu, Hao-Li Shi, Li-Ming Song, 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, Wen-Long Zhang, Yan-Ting Zhang, Shu-Min Zhao, Xiao-Yun Zhao, Chao Zheng (IHEP), Maria-Grazia Bernardini (LUPM/INAF-OAB), Laurent Bouchet (IRAP), David Corre (CEA), Tais Maiolino (LUPM), Frédéric Piron (LUPM) , Stéphane Schanne (CEA), Jingwei Wang (IAP)

SVOM JSWG: Jian-Yan Wei (NAOC), Bertrand Cordier (CEA), Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP), Stéphane Basa (LAM), JeanLuc 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 detected a weak and long GRB 240808A at 2024-08-08T11:57:57 UT (T0).
With the event-by-event data downloaded through the X-band ground station, the light curve shows that this burst consists of a single pulse with a duration of about 4 s.

The GRM light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn/admin/static/svgrb240808A.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)