GCN Circular 39423
Subject
Konus-Wind detection of GRB 250221A
Date
2025-02-22T12:13:42Z (24 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
GRB 250221A (Swift detection: Caputo et al., GCN 39396)
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 ~12 sigma count-rate increase in the interval
from T0-1.5 s to T0+4.4 s where T0 = T0(BAT) = 03:34:37 UT.
The KW light curve of this burst is available
at http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB250221A/
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 = -1.05 (-0.12, + 0.12) and Ep = 242(-22,+26) keV.
In the 10 keV -10 MeV band, standard for the KW analysis,
the burst fluence is (1.67 ± 0.09)x10^-6 erg/cm^2
and the 2.944 s peak energy flux is (2.97 ± 0.17)x10^-7 erg/cm^2/s.
Assuming the redshift z=0.768 (Palmerio et al., GCN 39418)
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 (2.8 ± 0.2)x10^51 erg,
the isotropic peak luminosity L_iso to (8.6 ± 0.5)x10^50 erg/s, and
the rest-frame peak spectral energy Ep,z to (428 ± 44) keV.
With the obtained estimates, GRB 250221A is a hard-spectrum outlier
(lies outside 90% prediction bands) of both '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/GRB250221A/GRB250221A_rest_frame.pdf
All the quoted errors are estimated at the 68% confidence level.
All the presented results are preliminary.