GCN Circular 43679
Subject
GRB 260208C: SVOM/GRM observation
Event
Date
2026-02-10T11:05:49Z (20 hours ago)
From
Yue Wang <m18509381757@163.com>
Via
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SVOM/GRM team: Yue Wang, Chen-Wei Wang, Xing-Hao Luo, Shi-Jie Zheng, Yue Huang, Shao-Lin Xiong, Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP)
SVOM/ECLAIRs team: Marius Brunet (IRAP)
Report on behalf of the SVOM team:
SVOM/GRM was triggered in-flight by GRB 260208C at 2026-02-08T15:12:21.000 (T0), which is also detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN #43653).
With the event-by-event data downloaded through the X-band ground station, the GRM light curve shows that this burst consists of multiple pulses with a T90 of 10 +4/-4 s in the 15-5000 keV band.
The SVOM/GRM light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn//admin/static/svgrb260208C.png
In addition, the position of this burst, as determined by Fermi/GBM (RA = 281.3, Dec = -49.2, Error = 2.3, GCN #43653), is located at about 107 degrees from the SVOM optical axis, which is outside the ECLAIRs field of view.
With this localization, the time-averaged spectrum from T0-1 to T0+5 s is best fitted by a power law function. The power law index is -2.22 +0.13/-0.13. The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (4.21 +0.79/-0.72)E-06 erg/cm^2.
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/GRM point of contact for this burst is: Yue Wang (IHEP) (yuewang@ihep.ac.cn)