GCN Circular 43159
Subject
GRB 251219A: SVOM/GRM observation of a short burst
Event
Date
2025-12-20T17:45:55Z (a day ago)
From
Chenwei Wang at IHEP <cwwang@ihep.ac.cn>
Via
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SVOM/GRM team: Chen-Wei Wang, Yue Huang, Shi-Jie Zheng, Shao-Lin Xiong, Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP)
SVOM/ECLAIRs team: Sebastien Guillot (IRAP)
Report on behalf of the SVOM team:
SVOM/GRM was triggered in-flight by a short soft GRB 251219A (SVOM trigger reference: sb25121902) at 2025-12-19T02:36:31.600 UTC (T0), which is also detected by GECAM-B (Wang et al., GCN#43158).
With the event-by-event data downloaded through the X-band ground station, the GRM light curve shows that this burst consists of a single pulse with a T90 of 0.16 +0.12/-0.02 s in the 15-5000 keV band.
The SVOM/GRM light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/svgrb251219A.png
In addition, the position of this burst, as determined by GECAM-B (RA= 296.5, DEC= -11.9, ERR=5.6), is located at about 126 degrees from the SVOM optical axis, which is outside the ECLAIRs field of view.
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA, China), National Center for Space Studies (CNES, France) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, China), which is dedicated to observing gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena in the energetic universe. GRM is developed by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of CAS.
The SVOM point of contact for this burst is: Chen-Wei Wang (IHEP)(cwwang@ihep.ac.cn)