GCN Circular 42601
Subject
GRB 251016A: TERI Gamma-ray detection of a short burst
Event
Date
2025-11-06T15:50:38Z (a year ago)
From
Daniel Shy <danielshy@danielshy.com>
Via
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Daniel Shy (a), C.C. Cheung (a), Bernard Phlips (a), Michael Streicher (b), James Mason (b), Douglas M. Groves (b), Feng Zhang (b), and Willy Kaye (b)
(a) U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Ave SW, Washington, DC 20375
(b) H3D, Inc., 812 Avis Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
The cadmium zinc TElluride Radiation Imager (TERI) gamma-ray telescope [1], operating on the International Space Station, reports the detection of GRB 251016A, which was also detected by SVOM/ECLAIRs (GCN 42308, 42374), Fermi/GBM (GCN 42309, 42365), Glowbug (GCN 42313), CALET (GCN 42321), AstroSat/CZTI (GCN 42327), Insight-HXMT/HE (GCN 42359), and Konus-Wind (GCN 42473).
Using 1 Hz binning, at 2025-10-16T14:59:20.0 we observe a single peak with an excess count rate of roughly 34 counts per second (cps) above the 32 cps baseline rate observed in nearby off-source intervals.
The analysis results presented here are preliminary and currently lack a detailed response function.
TERI is an Office of Naval Research funded technology demonstrator for large-volume pixelated CdZnTe detectors developed, built, and operated by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in conjunction with H3D, Inc. The pixelated CdZnTe detectors have an energy range of 40 keV to 3 MeV per pixel. It was launched on 2025 April 21 aboard the Department of Defense Space Test Program’s STP-H10 to the ISS. On the ISS, it is located on the SOX external payload facility on the Columbus module. Analysis of TERI data at NRL is supported under contract with NASA as correlative science for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
[1] Shy, Daniel, et al. "Development of the cadmium zinc TElluride Radiation Imager." Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 10.4 (2024): 044009-044009 (arXiv:2408.04559).
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