GCN Circular 41615
Subject
GRB 250831A: SVOM/VT upper limit with VHF data
Event
Date
2025-08-31T11:12:25Z (14 days ago)
From
Huali Li at at NAOC, SVOM <lhl@nao.cas.cn>
Via
Web form
C. Wu, L.P. Xin, Y. L. Qiu, H.L. Li, Z.H. Yao, Y.N. Ma, X.H. Han, J. Wang, W.J. Xie, Y. Xu, H.B. Cai, J. Y. Wei (NAOC), J. Palmerio (CEA) report on behalf of the SVOM team.
SVOM/VT performed an automatic slew on the burst triggered by SVOM/ECLAIRs (Xie et al., GCN 41614). SVOM/VT began observing the field automatically at 2025-08-31T09:35:46.00 UTC, 523 seconds after the T0, with the slew of the platform triggered on-board, in VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm) channels simultaneously.
With downlinked VHF data, no any uncatalogued sources were found in stacked images within the errorbox of SVOM/MXT (Xie et al., GCN 41614) compared to Legacy survey.
The 3 sigma limit in AB magnitude was derived as follows:
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(T-T0)_mid exptime Band upperlim (3sigma)
523 sec 300 sec VT_R 21.5 mag
We noticed that there is a very bright cataloged M type binary (G 272-61) near the MXT position, which is saturated in VT images. Its position is RA=24.75605 and D.E.=-17.95056 in J2000.
More follow-ups are encouraged to investigate the nature of the burst.
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA, China), National Center for Space Studies (CNES, France) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, China), which is dedicated to observing gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena in the energetic universe. VT was jointly developed by Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), CAS and National astronomical observatories (NAOC), CAS.