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GCN Circular 37226

Subject
GRB 240821A: SVOM/GRM observation
Date
2024-08-22T01:51:45Z (2 months ago)
From
Yue Huang at IHEP <huangyue@ihep.ac.cn>
Via
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SVOM/GRM team: Jiang He, Yong-Wei Dong, Jiang-Tao Liu, Shi-Jie Zheng, Jian-Chao Sun, Yue Huang, Wen-Jun tan, Chen-Wei Wang, Min Gao, Hao-Xuan Guo, 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 was triggered in-flight by GRB 240821A (SVOM trigger reference: sb24082109) at 2024-08-21T18:36:02.700 UT (T0), which was also observed by SVOM/ECLAIRs (GCN 37220) and Fermi/GBM (GCN 37219).

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 a duration of about 1 s.

The SVOM/GRM light curve can be found here:
http://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/svgrb240821A.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/GRM point of contact for this burst is: Jiang He (IHEP)(hejiang@ihep.ac.cn)
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