GRB 151027B
GCN Circular 18548
Subject
GRB 151027B: ATCA radio detection
Date
2015-11-01T07:01:04Z (10 years ago)
From
Jochen Greiner at MPI <jcg@mpe.mpg.de>
J. Greiner (MPE), M. Wieringa (CSIRO), P. Wiseman (MPE) report for a
larger consortium:
We observed the field of GRB 151027B (Swift trigger 661869; Ukwatta et
al., GCN 18499) simultaneously at 5.5 and 9 GHz with the Australia
Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), beginning at October 30.54 UT for 3.3 hrs.
At a mean frequency of 9 GHz (with 2 GHz bandwidth) we detect a source
at ~67+/-10 microJy at the position of the optical afterglow (Malesani
et al., GCN 18501; Wiseman et al., GCN 18507). At the redshift of z=4.063
(Xu et al., GCN 18506) this is among the most luminous GRB radio afterglows.
We are grateful to P. Edwards for scheduling this observation.
GCN Circular 18543
Subject
GRB 151027B: RATIR Late-Time Upper Limits
Date
2015-10-31T15:12:21Z (10 years ago)
From
Nat Butler at UC berkeley <natxbutler@gmail.com>
Nat Butler (ASU), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC), William H. Lee (UNAM), Michael G. Richer (UNAM), Ori Fox (UCB), J. Xavier Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB), Antonino Cucchiara (GSFC/STScI), Eleonora Troja (GSFC), Owen Littlejohns (ASU), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), Jos�� A. de Diego (UNAM), Leonid Georgiev (UNAM), Jes��s Gonz��lez (UNAM), Carlos Rom��n-Z����iga (UNAM), Neil Gehrels (GSFC), Harvey Moseley (GSFC), John Capone (UMD), V. Zach Golkhou (ASU), and Vicki Toy (UMD) report:
We observed the field of GRB 151027B (Ukwatta, et al., GCN 18499) with the Reionization and Transients Infrared Camera (RATIR; www.ratir.org) on the 1.5m Harold Johnson Telescope at the Observatorio Astron��mico Nacional on Sierra San Pedro M��rtir from 2015/10 31.23 to 2015/10 31.52 UTC (78.85 to 85.85 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining a total of 5.20 hours exposure in the r, i, and z bands.
We no longer detect the optical afterglow (Malesani et al., GCN 18501). In comparison with the USNO-B1 and 2MASS catalogs, we obtain the following upper limits (3-sigma):
r > 23.45
i > 23.39
z > 18.57
These magnitudes are in the AB system and are not corrected for Galactic extinction in the direction of the GRB.
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astron��mico Nacional in San Pedro M��rtir.
GCN Circular 18529
Subject
GRB 151027B: Swift UVOT detection
Date
2015-10-29T15:34:43Z (10 years ago)
From
Alice Breeveld at MSSL-UCL <a.breeveld@ucl.ac.uk>
A. A. Breeveld (UCL-MSSL) and T. N. Ukwatta (LANL) report on behalf of
the Swift/UVOT team:
In Swift/UVOT followup observations of GRB 151027B (Ukwatta et al., GCN
Circ. 18499) a source is found in the summed up V filter exposures at a
position consistent with the XRT (Osborne et al., GCN Circ. 18504) and
the optical/NIR counterparts reported by Malesani et al. GCN Circ.
18501, Xu et al. GCN Circ. 18505, Wiseman and Greiner GCN Circ. 18507,
Buckley et al. GCN Circ. 18511, Watson et al. GCN Circ. 18512, and
Dichiara et al. GCN Circ. 18520.
A preliminary detection using the UVOT photometric system (Breeveld et
al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for V data taken in the first and
second segment is:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
v 191 28529 1986 20.8 �� 0.3
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the strong Galactic
extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.25 in the direction of the
burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).
GCN Circular 18520
Subject
GRB 151027B: LCOGT FTN afterglow observations
Date
2015-10-28T20:13:07Z (10 years ago)
From
Simone Dichiara at Ferrara U/Italy <dichiara@fe.infn.it>
S. Dichiara (U. Ferrara, ICRANet), D. Kopac (U. Ljubljana), C. Guidorzi
(U. Ferrara), S. Kobayashi (LJMU), A. Gomboc (U. Ljubljana) on behalf of
a larger collaboration report:
The 2-m Faulkes Telescope North in Hawaii began observing Swift
GRB 151027B (Ukwatta et al., GCN 18499) on October 28, 12:18:25 UT, i.e.,
~ 13.6 hours after the burst trigger, with the r' and i' filters.
Although we did not detect the optical counterpart (Malesani et al.,
GCN 18501; Xu et al., GCN 18505; Wiseman et al., GCN 18507;
Buckley et al., GCN 18511; Watson et al., GCN 18512) in the r'
filter (R > 20.3), the source is detected in the i' filter with
I = 19.6 +/- 0.3 mag at a mid time of 13.9 hours post burst
(total exposure in i' of 600 s).
The magnitude is calibrated against nearby USNO-B1 stars.
GCN Circular 18517
Subject
GRB 151027B: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2015-10-28T15:45:21Z (10 years ago)
From
Alice Breeveld at MSSL-UCL <a.breeveld@ucl.ac.uk>
A. A. Breeveld (UCL-MSSL) and T. N. Ukwatta (LANL) report on behalf of
the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 151027B
210 s after the BAT trigger (Ukwatta et al., GCN Circ. 18499).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Osborne et al.
GCN Circ. 18504) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures.
Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system
(Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the first finding
chart (FC) exposure and subsequent exposures are:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
white_FC 210 359 147 >20.0
white 210 4545 344 >20.5
v 366 4956 216 >18.8
b 4141 5737 354 >20.6
u 3935 5571 393 >20.4
w1 415 5366 397 >20.4
m2 4961 5161 197 >19.1
w2 4551 4751 197 >19.9
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic
extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.25 in the direction of the
burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).
GCN Circular 18514
Subject
GRB 151027B: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2015-10-28T14:29:31Z (10 years ago)
From
Amy Lien at GSFC <amy.y.lien@nasa.gov>
T. Sakamoto (AGU), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. R. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC),
N. Gehrels (GSFC), H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC),
C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL), M. Stamatikos (OSU),
T. N. Ukwatta (LANL) (i.e. the Swift-BAT team):
Using the data set from T-239 to T+963 sec from the recent telemetry downlink,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 151027B (trigger #661869)
(Ukwatta, et al., GCN Circ. 18499). The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 76.188, -6.428 deg which is
RA(J2000) = 05h 04m 45.0s
Dec(J2000) = -06d 25' 40.2"
with an uncertainty of 2.4 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 17%.
The mask-weighted light curve shows a complex structure with several
overlapping peaks that starts at ~T0 and ends at ~T+100 s. T90 (15-350 keV)
is 80.00 +- 35.78 sec (estimated error including systematics).
The time-averaged spectrum from T+1.00 to T+97.00 sec is best fit by a simple
power-law model. The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
1.83 +- 0.27. The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 1.5 +- 0.3 x 10^-6 erg/cm2.
The 1-s peak photon flux is unconstrained due to the weakness of the burst.
All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level.
The results of the batgrbproduct analysis are available at
http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/notices_s/661869/BA/
GCN Circular 18512
Subject
GRB 151027B: RATIR Observations
Date
2015-10-28T14:10:19Z (10 years ago)
Edited On
2024-11-07T19:53:09Z (a year ago)
From
Nat Butler at UC berkeley <natxbutler@gmail.com>
Edited By
Vidushi Sharma at NASA GSFC/UMBC <vidushi.sharma@nasa.gov> on behalf of Leo P. Singer at NASA/GSFC <leo.p.singer@nasa.gov>
Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Nat Butler (ASU), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC), William H. Lee (UNAM), Michael G. Richer (UNAM), Ori Fox (UCB), J. Xavier Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB), Antonino Cucchiara (GSFC/STScI), Eleonora Troja (GSFC), Owen Littlejohns (ASU), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), José A. de Diego (UNAM), Leonid Georgiev (UNAM), Jesús González (UNAM), Carlos Román-Zúñiga (UNAM), Neil Gehrels (GSFC), Harvey Moseley (GSFC), John Capone (UMD), V. Zach Golkhou (ASU), and Vicki Toy (UMD) report:
We observed the field of GRB 151027B (Ukwatta et al., GCN 18499) with the Reionization and Transients Infrared Camera (RATIR; www.ratir.org) on the 1.5m Harold Johnson Telescope at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on Sierra San Pedro Mártir from 2015/10 28.26 to 2015/10 28.51 UTC (7.46 to 13.55 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining a total of 3.51 hours exposure in the r, i, and z bands.
We detect a source at 05:04:52.69 -06:27:00.8 (J2000, +/-0.05), within the Swift-XRT error circle. In comparison with the USNO-B1 and 2MASS catalogs, we obtain the following detections:
r = 20.83 +/- 0.05
i = 20.18 +/- 0.04
z = 19.49 +/- 0.21
These magnitudes are in the AB system and are not corrected for Galactic extinction in the direction of the GRB.
This source coincides with the source reported by Malesani et al. (GCN 18501), Xu et al. (GCN 18505), Wiseman et al. (GCN 18507), and Buckley et al. (GCN 18511