GCN Circular 41495
Subject
GRB 250812A: SVOM/ECLAIRs refined analysis
Event
Date
2025-08-22T14:39:39Z (a month ago)
From
SVOM_group <svomgroup@bao.ac.cn>
Via
Web form
L. Bouchet, J.-L. Atteia , O. Godet, M. Brunet (IRAP), L. P. Xin(NAOC), Z.M. Wang(BNU)
report on behalf of the SVOM/ECLAIRs team:
Using the ECLAIRs event-by-event data downloaded through the X-band ground station, we report further analysis of ECLAIRs observations of GRB 250812A (SVOM burst-id sb25081201), triggered by ECLAIRs onboard SVOM (Xin et al., GCN 41322).
The burst is faint and the 4-120 keV lightcurve is featureless.
The time-averaged spectrum from T0-51 s to T0+3 s (T0 = 2025-08-12T02:46:03 UTC) in the energy range 4-120 keV is relatively well fitted by a powerlaw model with index -1.19+/-0.27. With this model, the fluence in 4-120 keV is about 7.5 (-1.9,+0.6) e-7 erg/cm^2.
All quoted errors are at the 68% confidence level.
The spectral index suggests that the Epeak value is above 120 keV.
The source redshift is found to be z=2.571 (Van Dalen et al., GCN 41347; de Ugarte Postigo et al., GCN 41348). At this redshift, GRB 250812A lies in the region of type II GRBs in the Amati plot for values of Epeak ≤ 200 keV.
We note that the calibration of SVOM/ECLAIRs is ongoing thus these results are preliminary.
The Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA), French Space Agency (CNES), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), which is dedicated to observing gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena in the energetic universe. ECLAIRs was developed jointly by CNES, CEA-IRFU, CNRS-IRAP, CNRS-APC.
The SVOM/ECLAIRs point of contact for this GCN circular is: Laurent Bouchet (laurent.bouchet@irap.omp.eu).