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GRB 060425

GCN Circular 5005

Subject
GRB 060425: IPN localization and KW spectrum of a short, hard burst
Date
2006-04-26T23:50:41Z (19 years ago)
From
Jay R. Cummings at NASA/GSFC/Swift <jayc@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>
J. Cummings, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, and H. Krimm, on behalf of
the Swift-BAT team,
S. Golenetskii, R. Aptekar, E. Mazets, V. Pal'shin, D. Frederiks,
and T. Cline on behalf of the Konus-Wind team,
A. von Kienlin, G. Lichti, A. Rau, D. Gotz, and S. Mereghetti,
on behalf of the INTEGRAL GRB team,
K. Hurley, D. M. Smith, R. P. Lin, J. McTiernan, R. Schwartz, C. Wigger, 
W. Hajdas, and A. Zehnder, on behalf of the RHESSI GRB team,
and K.Yamaoka, M.Ohno, Y.Fukazawa, T.Takahashi, M.Tashiro, Y. Terada,
T.Murakami, and K.Makishima on behalf of the Suzaku WAM team
report:
 
A short, hard GRB was observed at 2006-04-25 16:57:40 by Swift-BAT,
Konus-Wind, Suzaku-WAM, RHESSI, and INTEGRAL-SPI-ACS.  The T90 was 
0.13 +- 0.01 sec.  This burst was Mars-occulted to Odyssey.  The burst 
had 2 main peaks of roughly similar intensity and hardness, the second 
slightly shorter than the first.

The IPN triangulated error box is as follows:
 
 ----------------------
 RA, deg     Dec, deg          (J2000)
 ----------------------
 Center:
 212.3007   -5.0667
 
 Corners:
   214.5693  -1.7277
   210.9652  -7.0326
   210.7765  -8.4092
   213.8848  -3.1685
 -----------------------
 
The area of the box is 2.53 sq. deg
 
Preliminary analysis of the Konus-Wind data yields a burst fluence of 
2.57 (-1.85, +0.47) x 10^-6 erg/cm2.  The peak flux measured from 
T0(K-W)-0.036 s on a 16-ms time scale was 
3.64 (-2.74, +1.06) x 10^-5 erg/cm2/sec. Both are quoted in the 
20 keV - 10 MeV energy range.  The K-W spectrum accumulated from 
T0(K-W) to T0(K-W)+0.128 s is well fitted (in the 20 keV - 10 MeV range) 
by a power law with exponential cutoff model:
     dN/dE ~ E^(-alpha) * exp(-(2-alpha)*E/Ep)
with alpha = 0.92 (-0.37, + 0.28) and Ep = 1403 (-594, 1273) keV 
(chi^2 = 16.7/18 dof). T0(K-W) = 61063.000 s UT (16:57:43.000).
 
We note that the X-ray source 1RXS J140902.5-050430, and nearby galaxies 
LEDA 1048719 and LEDA 1047950 are within this error box close to the 
center.

GCN Circular 5008

Subject
GRB060425:MASTER survey observations
Date
2006-04-27T15:19:39Z (19 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <gcncirc@observ.inetcomm.ru>
V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, N.Tyurina, A.Belinski, D.Kuvshinov, E.Gorbovskoy,
A.Krylov, G.Borisov, A.Sankovich,  V.Vladimirov, P.Gritsyk, S.Korobkin

Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow Union 'Optic'

MASTER  robotic system (http://observ.pereplet.ru) observed
  GRB060425 error box (GRB_TIME is 2006-04-25 16:57:40 UT, IPN 
triangulation 
GCN5005) in survey mode at considerable zenit distances. The weather was 
good.

The first image was at 2006-04-26 18:17:03.46 UT,
1.05 days   after the GRB time. The last image was at 2006-04-26 
19:53:07.00 UT, 1.12 days   after the GRB time.
We have 54 images. 
The location of  our samples you can find at
http://observ.pereplet.ru/images/GRB060425/GRB060425_ErrorBox_master.jpg

The unfiltered image is calibrated relative to USNO A2.0 (0.8 R + 0.2 B).

There is 1 bright galaxies in error box NGC5476 (14 08 08.48 -06 05 31.2).


The robot not find SN-candidate in error box brighter then  17.5 (s/n=3).
The robot  find several asteroids in error box brighter then  17.5 (s/n=3) 
at error box:

  | number |     name      |            coord2000            | mag
  +--------+---------------+---------------------------------+------|
  |   1105 | Volland       |   14h 14m 10.3s , - 3d 15m 31s) | 17.5 |
  |    104 | Asta          | ( 14h 13m 18.7s , - 3d 57m 7s)  | 14.9 |
  |    111 | Euboea        | ( 14h  5m 56.8s , - 6d 59m 32s) | 14.2 |
  |   3652 | 2000 QZ79     | ( 14h  5m 52.7s , - 6d 50m 53s) | 17.4 |
  |   1403 | 1995 HR       | ( 14h  4m 5.1s , - 7d 59m 30s)  | 16.4 |

So as possible OT time decay may be about 1 day 
we plan additional observations.
MASTER team  thanks to Konus-Wind team for collaboration. 
This work is supported by RFFI  04-02-16411 grant.
This message can be cited.
Mailto: lipunov@sai.msu.ru

GCN Circular 5026

Subject
GRB060425:MASTER optical limit
Date
2006-04-28T16:19:06Z (19 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <gcncirc@observ.inetcomm.ru>
V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, N.Tyurina, A.Belinski, D.Kuvshinov, E.Gorbovskoy,
A.Krylov, N.Shatskiy, G.Borisov, A.Sankovich,  V.Vladimirov, P.Gritsyk, 
S.Korobkin

Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow Union 'Optic'

MASTER  robotic system (http://observ.pereplet.ru) observed
  GRB060425 error box (GRB_TIME is 2006-04-25 16:57:40 UT, IPN triangulation 
GCN5005) in survey mode at considerable zenit distances. The weather was good.
We have two nights observations 2006-04-26 from 18:17:03.46  to 
19:53:07.00 (1.05 - 1.12 days   after the GRB time) (Lipunov et 
al.GCN5008) and  2006-04-27 from 18:57:50.89 to	19:21:19.88.
We have 72 images. The location of  our samples you can find at
http://observ.pereplet.ru/images/GRB060425/GRB060425_ErrorBox_master.jpg

The unfiltered image is calibrated relative to USNO A2.0 (0.8 R + 0.2 B).

The robot not find OT brighter then 17.0 between 1.05 -1.12 day after GRB 
time in large IPN error box (J. Cummings, S. Barthelmy et al. GCN5005).

The robot not find SN brighter then 17.5 in two nights.
The search of the SN after several days is planed.

MASTER team  thanks to Konus-Wind team for collaboration. This work is 
supported by RFFI  04-02-16411 grant.
This message can be cited.
Mailto: lipunov@sai.msu.ru

GCN Circular 5080

Subject
GRB060425: new MASTER survey method
Date
2006-05-06T14:15:34Z (19 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <gcncirc@observ.inetcomm.ru>
V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, N.Tyurina, A.Belinski, D.Kuvshinov, E.Gorbovskoy,
A.Krylov, N.Shatskiy, G.Borisov, A.Sankovich,  V.Vladimirov, P.Gritsyk, 
S.Korobkin

Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow Union 'Optic'

In this circular we proposed and tested new method of optical observations 
of GRBs by wide field robotic telescopes: survey search of the optical 
transient like supurnovae in large error box GRBs or dark not X-ray GRB.
Especially this method is very important for bright short GRB, that 
frequently detected by all sky gamma-ray detectors (Konus-Wind, 
Ulysses, Odyssey, etc) and for which connection with supernovae is not 
clear.

The difference between "OT" and "SN" is the following: OT - is the new 
optical object without known galaxy. The SN pipe line reduction is based 
on the searching of the uncatalogized candidate near known galaxies (for 
example from HyperLeda, http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/hypercat/).

MASTER  robotic system (http://observ.pereplet.ru, 6 square degrees field) 
observed GRB060425 error box (GRB_TIME is 2006-04-25 16:57:40 UT, IPN 
triangulation  GCN5005) in survey mode at considerable zenit distances. 
The weather was good.
We have 4 nights (1-2 hours per night) observations:

    Date    Days after GRB         Note                     Limit
 		mean 
2006-04-26     1.1           (Lipunov et al.GCN5008)        17.5
2006-04-27     2.1           (Lipunov et al.GCN5026)        17.5
2006-04-30     5.2                                          17.8
2006-05-03     8.1                                          17.6

The location of  our samples you can find at
http://observ.pereplet.ru/images/GRB060425/GRB060425_ErrorBox_master.jpg

The unfiltered image is calibrated relative to USNO A2.0 (0.8 R + 0.2 B).

The robot not find OT brighter then 17.0 in
large IPN error box (J. Cummings, S. Barthelmy et al. GCN5005).

The robot not find SN brighter then 17.5.
Father observations of the GRB050425 not planed.

MASTER team  thanks to Konus-Wind team for collaboration. This work is 
supported by RFFI  04-02-16411 grant.
This message can be cited.
Mailto: lipunov@sai.msu.ru

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