GCN Circular 46037
Subject
GRB 261019A: SVOM/GRM observation
Event
Date
2026-10-26T09:02:32Z (6 days ago)
From
guohx@ihep.ac.cn
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SVOM/GRM team: Hao-Xuan Guo, Zheng-Hang Yu, Chen-Wei Wang, Chao Zheng, Shi-Jie Zheng, Yue Huang, Shao-Lin Xiong, Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP)
SVOM/ECLAIRs team: Hui Yang (IRAP)
Report on behalf of the SVOM team:
SVOM/GRM was triggered in-flight by GRB 261019A at 2026-10-19T09:14:07.000 UTC (T0), which is also detected by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM team, GCN #45989) and Insight-HXMT/HE (Guo et al., GCN #46013).
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 112 +5/-7 s in the 15-5000 keV band.
The SVOM/GRM light curve can be found here:
https://www.bursthub.cn/gcn/2026/svgrb261019A.png
In addition, the position of this burst, as determined by Fermi/GBM (RA = 321.9, Dec = -72.4, GCN #45989), is located at about 55 degrees from the SVOM optical axis, which is outside the ECLAIRs field of view.
With this localization, the time-averaged spectrum from T0-7 to T0+118 s is best fitted by a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -0.54 +0.08/-0.07 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 102 +/-3 keV. The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (2.19 +/-0.05)E-05 erg/cm^2.
The 1s peak spectrum, measured from T0+9 to T0+10 s, if fitted by a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff, the power law index is -0.59 +0.24/-0.22 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 143 +24/-16 keV. The flux (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (6.01 +0.59/-0.51)E-07 erg/cm^2/s.
The localization of GRB 261019A in the 'Amati' relation diagram is shown at:
https://www.bursthub.cn/gcn/2026/svgrb261019A_amati.png
The localization of GRB 261019A in the 'Yonetoku' relation diagram is shown at:
https://www.bursthub.cn/gcn/2026/svgrb261019A_yonetoku.png
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: Hao-Xuan Guo (IHEP)(guohx@ihep.ac.cn)