GCN Circular 37924
Subject
GRB 241026A: GECAM detection
Event
Date
2024-10-28T08:29:21Z (9 months ago)
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Yan-Qiu Zhang (IHEP), Shao-Lin Xiong (IHEP), Chen-Wei Wang (IHEP) report on behalf of the GECAM team:
GECAM-B was triggered both in-flight and on-ground by a long burst, GRB 241026A, at 2024-10-26T22:42:31.200 UTC (T0), which was also detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN #37894), Swift/BAT (A. Melandri et al., GCN #37896), SVOM/GRM (Yan-Qiu Zhang et al., GCN #37921) and EP/WXT (D. Y. Li et al., GCN #37909).
According to the GECAM-B light curves in about 6-6000 keV, this burst mainly consists of multiple pulses with a duration (T90) of about 14.9（+4.8,-3.6）s.
The time-averaged spectrum from T0-0.32 to T0+14.61 s could be fit by a power law with a fluence of about 6.67 (+0.36,-0.35) E-06 erg/cm^2 in 10-1000 keV.
The GECAM light curve could be found here:
https://twikinew.ihep.ac.cn/pubgecam/Sandbox/GRB/GECAMB_GRB241026A.png
We note that these results are very preliminary. Refined analysis will be reported later.
Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) mission originally consists of two microsatellites (GECAM-A and GECAM-B) launched in Dec. 2020. As the third member of GECAM constellation, GECAM-C was launched onboard SATech-01 experimental satellite in July 2022. GECAM mission is funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).