GCN Circular 39508
Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250223dk: Insight-HXMT/HE sub-threshold detection of a burst (HEB 250223501)
Date
2025-02-27T03:06:58Z (18 days ago)
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Ce Cai (HEBNU), Shao-Lin Xiong, Xiao-Bo Li, Shu-Xu Yi, Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP) report on behalf of the Insight-HXMT team:
At the event time (T0 = 2025-02-23T12:01:15.360 UTC) of the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250223dk event, which was reported to be possibly associated with a sub-threshold burst candidate by Swift/BAT (GCN 39443, 39499), Insight-HXMT was observing 99.97% of the localization probability region based on the combined skymap and there is no Insight-HXMT/HE triggers from the on-ground automated blind search around this event.
Thus, we implemented a targeted search [1] for sub-threshold burst signals within the window of T0+/-30 s using the central region of the joint LVK-Swift/BAT localization probability map (i.e. RA = 85.341 deg, Dec = -47.554 deg) and three types of GRB spectra. Our targeted search detected a burst candidate (named as HEB 250223501) with about 4 sigma on the 1-second timescale, starting at T0 - 9.50 s. We note that the time of this Insight-HXMT/HE burst candidate is well consistent with the start time of the Swift/BAT candidate (T0 - 10.240 s, GCN 39443), but the duration is much shorter, which could be explained as the detection energy band of Insight-HXMT/HE is higher than that of Swift/BAT in terms of GRB observation.
We note that these results are very preliminary. Refined analysis will be reported later.
Insight-HXMT is the first Chinese space X-ray telescope, which was funded jointly by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). More information about it could be found at: http://hxmten.ihep.ac.cn/.
[1] Cai, C., Xiong, S. L., Li, C. K., et al. 2021, MNRAS, 508, 3910S