GCN Circular 42779
Subject
GRB 251118A: GECAM-B detection
Event
Date
2025-11-20T08:32:34Z (2 days ago)
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Yang-Zhao Ren, Chen-Wei Wang, Chao Zheng, Shao-Lin Xiong (IHEP) report on behalf of GECAM team:
GECAM-B was triggered in-flight by a long burst, GRB 251118A, at 2025-11-18T20:31:30.089 UTC (denoted as T0), which is also detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN #42743), Fermi/LAT (Gupta et. al., GCN #42752), and NuSTAR (Waratkar et. al., GCN #42774).
According to the GECAM-B light curves in about 40-6000 keV, this burst mainly consists of multiple pulses with a duration (T90) of 46.2 +0.2/-0.3 s.
The GECAM-B light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/gecambgrb251118A.png
The time-averaged spectrum from T0-1.9 s to T0+71.0 s is best fitted by a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -1.54 +0.09/-0.09 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 99.8 +4.4/-4.5 keV. The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (1.01 +0.04/-0.04)E-04 erg/cm^2. The 'Amati' relation diagram of GRB 251118A is shown at:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/gecambgrb251118A_amati.png
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).