GCN Circular 37807
Subject
GRB241017A: TOO Observations by SVOM/MXT
Date
2024-10-18T05:59:27Z (6 days ago)
From
Diego Gotz at CEA <diego.gotz@cea.fr>
Via
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SVOM/MXT Commissioning Team: D. Götz (CEA Irfu/DAp), A. Fort, J. Joubert, K. Mercier, S. Crepaldi (CNES), F. Robinet, N. Leroy (IJCLab), P. Ferrando, H. Goto, A. Meuris, M. Moita, C. Plasse, A. Sauvageon (CEA), P. Maggi, L. Michel (ObAS)
SVOM JSWG: Jian-Yan Wei (NAOC), Bertrand Cordier (CEA), Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP), Stéphane Basa (LAM), Olivier Godet (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), Shaolin Xiong (IHEP), Bing Zhang (UNLV)
Report on behalf of the SVOM team:
MXT observed the field of GRB241017A (Le Provost et al., GCN 37799) as a ToO from 2024 October 17th at 18:05 UTC for about 4ks, about 14 hours after T0.
Our preliminary analysis shows no obvious X-ray conterpart in the entire ECLAIRs error region down to a limit of about 1e-12 erg/cmsq/s in the 0.5-10 keV energy band.
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA), French Space Agency (CNES), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), which is dedicated to observing gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena in the energetic universe. MXT was developed jointly by CEA, CNES, University of Leicester, IJCLab and MPE.