GCN Circular 41273
Subject
EP250806a: Upper limit from Fermi-GBM Observations
Event
Date
2025-08-07T20:05:54Z (11 days ago)
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mariaedvige.ravasio@ru.nl
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M. E. Ravasio and P.G. Jonker (Radboud Univ.) on behalf of the Einstein Probe Team
and
E. Burns (LSU) on behalf of the Fermi-GBM Team, report:
Fermi-GBM had full spatial coverage of the transient EP250806a detected by EP-WXT (Yang et al., GCN 41246). There was no Fermi-GBM onboard trigger around the refined EP starting time T0=2025-08-06T09:17:30 UTC (Liang et al., GCN 41256).
The GBM targeted search [1], the most sensitive, coherent search for GRB-like signals, was run in the time interval [T0-50;T0+500] s, seeking signals between 64 ms and 32.768 s in duration. No signal consistent with the EP transient, both temporally and spatially, is identified, as confirmed also by visual inspection of the data.
Assuming a “soft” spectral template (Band function with Epeak = 70 keV, alpha = -1.9, beta = -3.7), and a duration of 8.192 s, we derive a flux upper limit of 3.7e-08 erg/cm2/s in the energy band 10-1000 keV.
[1] Goldstein et al. 2019 arXiv:1903.12597