GCN Circular 42981
Subject
GRB 251203B : SVOM trigger sb25120304 is not a GRB
Event
Date
2025-12-03T21:50:09Z (a day ago)
From
SVOM_group <svomgroup@bao.ac.cn>
Via
Web form
M. Brunet, N. A. Webb (IRAP), D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud),report on behalf of the SVOM mission team:
At 2025-12-03T18:10:27 SVOM issued an alert with burst-id: sb25120304.
The following circulars have been published regarding this event: GCN 42973, GCN 42974, GCN 42978, GCN 42979, with the event labelled as GRB 252103B.
Given the VT (Palmerio et al., GCN 42978), LCO (Malesani et al., GCN 42979), and XRT observations (https://www.swift.ac.uk/SVOM/SVOM_FIELD00054/), this event is most likely associated with a flare from the star Gaia DR3 2534635509050352256 (also a historical X-ray emitter), and is no longer considered a GRB.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
The Burst Advocate (BA) on shift for this alert is Marius Brunet: mbrunet@irap.omp.eu.
Please contact the BA by email if you require additional information.