GCN Circular 44583
Subject
MASS-Cube (GRID 2.0) detection of GRB 260507A
Event
Date
2026-05-12T16:33:06Z (5 days ago)
From
GRID Student Team at Tsinghua University <grid@tsinghua.edu.cn>
Via
Web form
Jiahuan Zhu, Chenyu Wang, Xutao Zheng, Hao Chang, Zirui Yang report on behalf of the MASS-Cube Collaboration:
MASS-Cube reports the detection of the long-duration GRB 260507A, which was also detected by Fermi/GBM (GCN Circular 44493) and GRID-09.
The event was triggered by MASS-Cube on 2026-05-07 at 20:27:59.7 UTC. The measured burst duration (T90) in the 50-10000 keV range is approximately 19.3 +/- 3.2 seconds.
The MASS-Cube light curve of this event can be found at https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/GRID/data/GRID-GCN/GRB260507A/MASS_Cube_260507A_ltcv.pdf.
MASS-Cube is a pathfinder for a 3D position-sensitive Compton telescope in space, currently considered the next generation of the GRID constellation in the era of multi-messenger astronomy. For more information about MASS-Cube, please refer to the following reference: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-024-09920-4.