GCN Circular 39116
Subject
Konus-Wind detection of GRB 250129A
Date
2025-02-01T17:29:52Z (9 days ago)
From
Dmitry Frederiks at Ioffe Institute <fred@mail.ioffe.ru>
Via
email
D. Frederiks, A.Lysenko, A. Ridnaya, D. Svinkin, A. Tsvetkova,
M. Ulanov, and T. Cline, on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report:
The long GRB 250129A (Swift detection: Beardmore et al., GCN 39066)
was detected by Konus-Wind (KW) in the waiting mode.
A Bayesian block analysis of the KW waiting mode data in the 20-400 keV band
reveals a >6 sigma count rate increase in the interval
from T0-66 s to T0+208 s where T0 = T0(BAT) = 04:45:09 UT.
The KW light curve of this burst is available
at http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB250129A/
Modeling the time-integrated spectrum of the burst
by a power law with exponential cutoff (CPL) model
dN/dE ~ (E^alpha)*exp(-E*(2+alpha)/Ep)
yields alpha = -1.74 (-0.07, + 0.07) and Ep = 66(-8,+8) keV.
In the 10 keV -10 MeV band, standard for the KW analysis,
the burst fluence is (6.71 ± 0.14)x10^-6 erg/cm^2
and the 2.944 s peak energy flux is (1.46 ± 0.18)x10^-7 erg/cm^2/s.
Assuming the redshift z=2.151 (Schneider et al., GCN 39071)
and a standard cosmology with H_0 = 67.3 km/s/Mpc, Omega_M = 0.315,
and Omega_Lambda = 0.685 (Planck Collaboration, 2014),
we estimate the burst isotropic energy release E_iso to (7.7 ± 0.2)x10^52 erg,
the isotropic peak luminosity L_iso to (5.3 ± 0.7)x10^51 erg/s, and
the rest-frame peak spectral energy Ep,z to (207 ± 22) keV.
With the obtained estimates, GRB 250129A is consistent with 68% prediction
bands of 'Amati' and 'Yonetoku' relations for the sample
of >300 long KW GRBs with known redshifts (Tsvetkova et al., 2017; Tsvetkova et al., 2021),
see http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB250129A/GRB250129A_rest_frame.pdf
All the quoted errors are estimated at the 68% confidence level.
All the presented results are preliminary.