GCN Circular 39519
Subject
GRB 250226B: INTEGRAL SPI-ACS and PICsIT detection
Date
2025-02-27T14:32:17Z (14 days ago)
From
Aishwarya L Thakur at INAF-IAPS, Rome <aishth@outlook.com>
Via
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James Craig Rodi(a), Aishwarya Linesh Thakur(a), Patrizia Barria(a,b), Giulia Gianfagna(a), Lorenzo Natalucci(a,b), Luigi Piro(a), report:
GRB 250226B was discovered by Fermi/GBM (GCN 39503) at 2025-02-26T22:30:23 (UTC).
In a SPI-ACS light curve above 80 keV, we find a signal temporally coincident with the GBM detection, having an approximate duration of ~ 20 sec. The signal consists of multiple pulses over this duration. The strongest pulse of this signal is also detected in the IBIS/PICsIT data.
The approximate peak count rate in SPI-ACS is 95,000 cts/s for E>80 keV, over a median background rate of 63,000 cts/s.
This work is based on observations with INTEGRAL, an ESA project with instruments and a science data centre funded by ESA member states (especially the PI countries: Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Spain), and with the participation of Russia and the USA. The SPI-ACS detector system has been provided by MPE Garching/Germany.
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(a) INAF/IAPS-Rome
(b) ICSC National Research Centre for High-Performance Computing