GCN Circular 40167
Subject
Konus-Wind detection of GRB 250416C (a counterpart of EP250416a)
Date
2025-04-18T17:38:33Z (6 days ago)
From
Dmitry Svinkin at Ioffe Institute <svinkin@mail.ioffe.ru>
Via
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D. Svinkin, D. Frederiks, A.Lysenko, A. Ridnaya, A. Tsvetkova,
M. Ulanov, and T. Cline, on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report:
The long-duration GRB 250416C was detected by Konus-Wind (KW)
in the waiting mode at about T0=64427 s UT (17:53:47).
A Bayesian block analysis of the KW waiting mode data in
the 20-400 keV band reveals a ~7 sigma count-rate increase in
the interval from T0-6.3 s to T0+11.4 s.
The KW light curve of this burst is available
at http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB250416C/
The total burst fluence is 1.50(-0.42,+1.04)x10^-6 erg/cm^2,
and the 2.944 s peak energy flux, measured from T0-0.405 s,
is 1.57(-0.57,+1.15)x10^-7 erg/cm^2.
(both in the 20 keV - 10 MeV energy range).
The time-integrated spectrum of the burst,
measured from T0-6.3 s to T0+11.4 s,
can be described by a power law with exponential cutoff (CPL) model
dN/dE ~ (E^alpha)*exp(-E*(2+alpha)/Ep)
with alpha = -1.35(-0.36,+0.66) and Ep = 228(-110,+735) keV.
The burst was detected simultaneously with the fast X-ray transient EP250416a
(T0(EP)=17:53:59 UT; Zhao et al., GCN 40154; Zhou et al., GCN 40165).
The positional and temporal coincidence of this burst with the transient
supports the conclusion that the EP250416a is the GRB counterpart.
All the quoted errors are estimated at the 68% confidence level.
All the presented results are preliminary.