GCN Circular 42359
Subject
GRB 251016A: HXMT/HE detection
Event
Date
2025-10-18T16:40:50Z (4 days ago)
From
xueyuan zao <zaoxueyuan@gmail.com>
Via
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Xue-Yuan Zao, Chen-Wei Wang, Zheng-Hang Yu, Cheng-Kui Li, Shao-Lin Xiong, and Chao Zheng report on behalf of the Insight-HXMT team:
At 2025-10-16T14:59:19.750 (T0), Insight-HXMT/HE detected the short burst GRB 251016A, which is also detected by SVOM/ECLAIRs (Basa et al., GCN 42308), FERMI-GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN 42309), CALET-GBM (Kawakubo et al., GCN 42321), Glowbug (Woolf et al., GCN 42313) and Astro Sat CZTI (Arya et al., GCN 42327).
The Insight-HXMT/HE light curve mainly consists of a single pulse with a T90 of 0.34 +/-0.06 s. The total counts from this burst is 2297 counts.
The HXMT/HE light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/hxmtgrb251016A.png
All measurements above are made with the CsI detectors operating in the regular mode with the energy range of about 30-1000 keV (deposited energy). Only gamma-rays with energy greater than about 200 keV can penetrate the spacecraft and leave signals in the CsI detectors installed inside of the telescope.
Insight-HXMT is the first Chinese space X-ray telescope, which was funded jointly by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). More information about it could be found at: http://www.hxmt.org.