GCN Circular 45043
Subject
MASS-Cube (GRID 2.0) detection of GRB 260616B
Event
Date
2026-06-25T08:24:21Z (3 months 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 260616B, which was also detected by Fermi/GBM (GCN #44953), EP (GCN #44956 and #44976), CALET (GCN #44966), SVOM (GCN #45011), HXMT (GCN #45023) and GRID-09.
The event was triggered by MASS-Cube on 2026-06-16 at 07:05:14.5 UTC. The measured burst duration (T90) in the 50-10000 keV range is approximately 14.1 +/- 1.6 seconds.
The MASS-Cube light curve of this event can be found at https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/GRID/data/GRID-GCN/GRB260616B/MASS_Cube_260616B_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.