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GCN Circular 43301

Subject
GRB 251230A / EP251230a: GECAM-B detection
Date
2026-01-02T13:08:59Z (19 hours ago)
From
guohx@ihep.ac.cn
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Hao-Xuan Guo, Chen-Wei Wang, Zheng-Hang Yu, Shao-Lin Xiong (IHEP) report on behalf of GECAM team:

GECAM-B was triggered in-flight by GRB 251230A / EP251230a at 2025-12-30T01:21:44.050 UTC (denoted as T0), which is also detected by Swift (Lanava et al., GCN #43252), EP-WXT (Li et al., GCN #43255 and Wang et al., GCN #43272) and Insight-HXMT/HE (Guo et al., GCN #43299).

According to the GECAM-B light curve in about 70-6000 keV, this burst mainly consists of multi-pulses with a duration (T90) of 71.2 +4.6/-8.2 s.

The GECAM-B light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/gecambgrb251230A.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).
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