GCN Circular 40396
Subject
GRB 250506A: GECAM detection
Date
2025-05-08T14:13:56Z (10 days ago)
From
Chenwei Wang at IHEP <cwwang@ihep.ac.cn>
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Chen-Wei Wang, Shao-Lin Xiong (IHEP) report on behalf of GECAM team:
GECAM-B was triggered in-flight by GRB 250506A at 2025-05-06T02:23:22.850 UTC (denoted as T0), which was also detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN #40355) and SVOM (Wang et al., GCN #40358).
According to the GECAM-B light curves in about 40-6000 keV, this burst mainly consists of multiple pulses with a duration (T90) of 34.6 +0.8/-1.9 s.
The GECAM-B light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/gecamgrb250506A.png
With the localization of RA, Dec = 219.28269, +28.87835, as determined by Swift/XRT (D.N. Burrows et al., GCN #40394), the time-averaged spectrum from T0-10s to T0+60 s is best fitted by a powerlaw with an alpha of -2.02 +/- 0.11. The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (2.60 +/- 0.14)E-05 erg/cm^2.
Gravitational wave high-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) mission originally consists of two micro-satellites (GECAM-A and GECAM-B) launched in Dec. 2020. As the third member of GECAM constellation, GECAM-C was launched onboard SATech-01 experimental satellite in July 2022. GECAM mission is funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).