GCN Circular 42190
Subject
GRB 251009A: GECAM-B detection of a short burst
Event
Date
2025-10-10T16:22:21Z (3 days ago)
From
Chenwei Wang at IHEP <cwwang@ihep.ac.cn>
Via
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Chen-Wei Wang, Shao-Lin Xiong (IHEP) report on behalf of GECAM team:
GECAM-B was triggered on-ground by the short burst GRB 251009A at 2025-10-09T15:58:56.300 UTC (denoted as T0), which is also detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN#42179), SVOM/GRM (Wang et al., GCN#42185) and Insight-HXMT (Wang et al., GCN#42189). According to the GECAM-B light curves in about 40-6000 keV, this burst mainly consists of a single pulse with a duration (T90) of 0.14 +0.08/-0.08 s.
The GECAM-B light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/gecambgrb251009A.png
Using the automatic on-ground localization pipeline, GECAM-B localized this burst to the following position (J2000):
Ra: 103.2 deg
Dec: 34.2 deg
Err: 21.4 deg (1-sigma, statistical only)
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).