GRB 200826A
GCN Circular 28284
Subject
GRB 200826A: Fermi GBM Final Real-time Localization
Date
2020-08-26T04:40:17Z (5 years ago)
From
Fermi GBM Team at MSFC/Fermi-GBM <do_not_reply@GIOC.nsstc.nasa.gov>
The Fermi GBM team reports the detection of a likely SHORT GRB
At 04:29:52 UT on 26 Aug 2020, the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) triggered and located GRB 200826A (trigger 620108997.570644 / 200826187).
The on-ground calculated location, using the Fermi GBM trigger data, is RA = 4.7, Dec = 35.3 (J2000 degrees, equivalent to J2000 00h 18m, 35d 17'), with a statistical uncertainty of 1.7 degrees.
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is 73.0 degrees.
The skymap can be found here:
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/fermi/data/gbm/triggers/2020/bn200826187/quicklook/glg_skymap_all_bn200826187.png
The HEALPix FITS file, including the estimated localization systematic, can be found here:
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/fermi/data/gbm/triggers/2020/bn200826187/quicklook/glg_healpix_all_bn200826187.fit
The GBM light curve can be found here:
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/fermi/data/gbm/triggers/2020/bn200826187/quicklook/glg_lc_medres34_bn200826187.gif
GCN Circular 28285
Subject
Fermi GRB 200826A: Global MASTER-Net observations report
Date
2020-08-26T05:00:17Z (5 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
V. Lipunov, E. Gorbovskoy, V.Kornilov, N.Tyurina, P.Balanutsa, A.Kuznetsov, F.Balakin,
V.Vladimirov, D. Vlasenko, I.Gorbunov, D.Zimnukhov, V.Senik, T.Pogrosheva,
D.Kuvshinov, D. Cheryasov
(Lomonosov Moscow State University, SAI, Physics Department),
R. Podesta, C.Lopez, F. Podesta, C.Francile
(Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar OAFA),
R. Rebolo, M. Serra
(The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias),
D. Buckley
(South African Astronomical Observatory),
O.A. Gres, N.M. Budnev, O.Ershova
(Irkutsk State University, API),
A. Tlatov, D. Dormidontov
(Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory),
V. Yurkov, A. Gabovich, Yu. Sergienko
(Blagoveschensk Educational State University)
MASTER-OAFA robotic telescope (Global MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru, Lipunov et al., 2010, Advances in Astronomy, vol. 2010, 30L) located in Argentina (OAFA observatory of San Juan National University) started inspect of the Fermi GRB 200826A ( Fermi GBM team, GCN 28284) errorbox 18 sec after notice time and 46 sec after trigger time at 2020-08-26 04:30:38 UT, with upper limit up to 18.3 mag. The observations began at zenith distance = 76 deg. The sun altitude is -69.3 deg.
The galactic latitude b = -24 deg., longitude l = 116 deg.
Real time updated cover map and OT discovered available here:
https://master.sai.msu.ru/site/master2/observ.php?id=1427181
We obtain a following upper limits.
Tmid-T0 | Date Time | Site | Coord (J2000) |Filt.| Expt. | Limit| Comment
_________|_____________________|_____________________|____________________________________|_____|_______|_______|________
51 | 2020-08-26 04:30:38 | MASTER-OAFA | (00h 16m 30.99s , +38d 58m 23.2s) | C | 10 | 16.5 |
102 | 2020-08-26 04:31:24 | MASTER-OAFA | (00h 16m 59.22s , +35d 52m 18.4s) | C | 20 | 17.0 |
159 | 2020-08-26 04:32:16 | MASTER-OAFA | (00h 18m 21.45s , +36d 49m 55.4s) | C | 30 | 17.2 |
214 | 2020-08-26 04:33:06 | MASTER-OAFA | (00h 18m 17.46s , +36d 48m 57.2s) | C | 40 | 17.5 |
278 | 2020-08-26 04:34:05 | MASTER-OAFA | (00h 18m 22.91s , +36d 49m 03.8s) | C | 50 | 17.6 |
353 | 2020-08-26 04:35:15 | MASTER-OAFA | (00h 18m 20.27s , +36d 50m 58.1s) | C | 60 | 17.8 |
442 | 2020-08-26 04:36:34 | MASTER-OAFA | (00h 18m 20.68s , +36d 49m 32.1s) | C | 80 | 17.9 |
552 | 2020-08-26 04:38:14 | MASTER-OAFA | (00h 18m 23.06s , +36d 50m 57.8s) | C | 100 | 17.8 |
683 | 2020-08-26 04:40:15 | MASTER-OAFA | (00h 17m 00.73s , +35d 50m 57.2s) | C | 120 | 18.1 |
837 | 2020-08-26 04:42:34 | MASTER-OAFA | (00h 17m 02.07s , +35d 51m 59.4s) | C | 150 | 18.2 |
1022 | 2020-08-26 04:45:24 | MASTER-OAFA | (00h 17m 08.96s , +35d 51m 02.3s) | C | 180 | 18.3 |
1221 | 2020-08-26 04:48:43 | MASTER-OAFA | (00h 17m 02.21s , +35d 50m 06.3s) | C | 180 | 18.3 |
1421 | 2020-08-26 04:52:03 | MASTER-OAFA | (00h 17m 08.56s , +35d 50m 36.7s) | C | 180 | 18.3 |
Filter C is a clear (unfiltred) band.
The observation and reduction will continue.
The message may be cited.
GCN Circular 28286
Subject
GRB 200826A: BALROG localization (Fermi Trigger 620108997 / GRB 200826187)
Date
2020-08-26T05:19:26Z (5 years ago)
From
Jochen Greiner at MPE,Garching <jcg@mpe.mpg.de>
F. Kunzweiler, B. Biltzinger, F. Berlato, J. Burgess & J. Greiner (all MPE Garching) report:
The public trigdat data of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) trigger
620108997 at 04:29:52 on 26 Aug. 2020 were automatically fitted for spectrum
and sky location with BALROG (Burgess et al. 2018, MNRAS 476, 1427;
Berlato et al. 2019, ApJ 873, 60).
The best-fit position (1 sigma statistical errors) is:
RA(2000.0) = 7.0+/-2.1 deg
Decl.(2000.0) = 36.1+/-2.4 deg
We estimate an additional systematic error of 1 deg.
Further details are available at:
https://grb.mpe.mpg.de/grb/GRB200826187/
The Healpix map can be downloaded from:
https://grb.mpe.mpg.de/grb/GRB200826187/healpix
The location parameters are available as JSON at:
https://grb.mpe.mpg.de/grb/GRB200826187/json
GCN Circular 28287
Subject
GRB 200826A: Fermi GBM observation
Date
2020-08-26T17:18:41Z (5 years ago)
From
Joe Mangan at UCD <joseph.mangan@ucdconnect.ie>
J.Mangan (UCD), R.Dunwoody (UCD) and C.Meegan (UAH)
report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:
"At 04:29:52.57 UT on 26 August 2020, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
(GBM)
triggered and located GRB 200826A (trigger 620108997 / 200826187).
The on-ground calculated location, using the GBM trigger
data, was reported in GCN 28284.
The GBM light curve shows an exceptionally bright short GRB
with a duration (T90) of about 1.14 s (50-300 keV).
The time-averaged spectrum from T0-0.29 s to T0+1.76 s is
best fit by a Band function with Epeak = 89.8 +/- 3.7 keV,
alpha = -0.41 +/- 0.07, and beta = -2.4 +/- 0.1
The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(4.8 +/- 0.1)E-06 erg/cm^2. The 1.024-sec peak photon flux measured
starting from T0 s in the 10-1000 keV band
is 39.06 +/- 0.42 ph/s/cm^2.
The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary;
final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog:
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/fermi/fermigbrst.html
For Fermi GBM data and info, please visit the official Fermi GBM Support
Page:
https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/access/gbm/"
GCN Circular 28288
Subject
GRB 200826A: AstroSat CZTI detection
Date
2020-08-26T19:40:25Z (5 years ago)
From
Soumya Gupta at IUCAA/ASTROSAT <soumya@iucaa>
S. Gupta, V. Sharma, A. Vibhute and D. Bhattacharya (IUCAA), V. Bhalerao (IIT-B), A. R. Rao (IUCAA/TIFR) and S. Vadawale (PRL) report on behalf of the AstroSat CZTI collaboration:
Analysis of AstroSat CZTI data showed the detection of a bright short GRB 200826A, which was also detected by Fermi GBM (GCN #28284), Global MASTER-Net (Lipunov V. et al., GCN #28285) and BALROG (Kunzweiler F. et al., GCN #28286).
The source was clearly detected in the 40-200 keV energy range. The light curve showed a single peak of emission peaking at 2020-08-26 04:29:51.529 UT. The measured peak count rate associated with the burst is 686 +/- 34 cts/s above the background in the combined data of four quadrants, with a total of 1383 +/- 10 cts. The local mean background count rate was 537 +/- 2 cts/s. Using cumulative rates, we measure a T90 of 1.95 +/- 0.01 s.
It was also clearly detected in the CsI anticoincidence (Veto) detector in the 100-500 keV energy range. The light curve showed a single peak of emission peaking at 2020-08-26 04:29:51.000 UT. The measured peak count rate is 735 +/- 53 cts/s above the background in the combined Veto data of four quadrants, with a total of 1043 +/- 42 cts. The local mean background count rate was 1870 +/- 16 cts/s. We measure a T90 of 2.17 +/- 0.23 s from the cumulative Veto light curve.
CZTI GRB detections are reported regularly on the payload site at http://astrosat.iucaa.in/czti/?q=grb. CZTI is built by a TIFR-led consortium of institutes across India, including VSSC, ISAC, IUCAA, SAC and PRL. The Indian Space Research Organisation funded, managed and facilitated the project.
GCN Circular 28289
Subject
GRB 200826A: AGILE detection
Date
2020-08-26T20:30:44Z (5 years ago)
From
Francesco Verrecchia at SSDC,INAF-OAR <francesco.verrecchia@ssdc.asi.it>
C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia (SSDC, and INAF/OAR), A. Ursi (INAF/IAPS), M.
Tavani (INAF/IAPS, and Univ. Roma Tor Vergata), F. Longo (Univ. Trieste
and INFN Trieste), N. Parmiggiani (INAF/OAS-Bologna), F. Lucarelli,�� (SSDC,
and INAF/OAR), A. Argan, M. Cardillo, C. Casentini, Y. Evangelista, G.
Piano
(INAF/IAPS), A. Bulgarelli, V. Fioretti, F. Fuschino (INAF/OAS-Bologna), M.
Marisaldi (INAF/OAS-Bologna, and Bergen University), M. Pilia, A. Trois
(INAF/OA-Cagliari), I. Donnarumma (ASI), A. Giuliani (INAF/IASF-Mi), report
on behalf of the AGILE Team:
The AGILE satellite detected the short burst GRB 200826A at T0=2020-08-26
04:29:52 (UTC), reported by Fermi-GBM (GCN #28284, trigger 620108997.570644
/ 200826187).
The event was detected by the scientific ratemeters of the Super-AGILE (SA;
18-60 keV) detector. The light curve shows a single peak profile,
lasting 0.5
s and releasing ~84 counts above an average background rate of about 40
counts/s. The short burst was observed at an off-axis angle of about 54
degrees. The Super-AGILE light curve can be found here:
https://tools.ssdc.asi.it/ImgView/Agile/SA-TOT_GRB200826A_lcr28
Additional analysis of AGILE data is in progress.
GCN Circular 28290
Subject
GRB 200826A: Tiled Swift observations
Date
2020-08-26T20:46:44Z (5 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
P. A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift team:
Swift has initiated a series of observations, tiled on the sky, of the
Fermi/GBM GRB 200826A. Automated analysis of the XRT data will
be presented online at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/TILED_GRB00093
Any uncatalogued X-ray sources detected in this analysis will be
reported on this website and via GCN COUNTERPART notices. The probability of finding
serendipitous sources, unrelated to the Fermi/GBM event is high: any X-ray source
considered to be a probable afterglow candidate will be reported via a GCN Circular
after manual consideration.
Details of the XRT automated analysis methods are detailed in Evans et
al. (2007, A&A, 469, 379; 2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177 and 2014, ApJS, 210, 8).
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
GCN Circular 28291
Subject
IPN triangulation of GRB 200826A (short/bright)
Date
2020-08-26T21:28:52Z (5 years ago)
From
Dmitry Svinkin at Ioffe Institute <svinkin@mail.ioffe.ru>
K. Hurley, on behalf of the IPN,
I. G. Mitrofanov, D. V. Golovin, A. S. Kozyrev, M. L. Litvak,
and A. B. Sanin, on behalf of the HEND-Odyssey GRB team,
D. Svinkin, S. Golenetskii, R. Aptekar, D. Frederiks, A. Ridnaia,
and T. Cline on behalf of the Konus-Wind team,
A. Goldstein, M. S. Briggs, and C. Wilson-Hodge
on behalf of the Fermi GBM team,
A. von Kienlin, X. Zhang, A. Rau, V. Savchenko, E. Bozzo,
and C. Ferrigno, on behalf of the INTEGRAL SPI-ACS GRB team,
and
W. Boynton, C. Fellows, K. Harshman, H. Enos, and R. Starr,
on behalf of the GRS-Odyssey GRB team, report:
The short-duration, bright GRB 200826A
(Fermi-GBM detection: The Fermi GBM Team, GCN Circ. 28284;
Mangan et al., GCN Circ. 28287;
BALROG localization: Kunzweiler et al., GCN Circ. 28286;
AstroSat-CZTI detection: Gupta et al., GCN Circ. 28288;
AGILE detection: Pittori et al., GCN Circ. 28289)
has been detected by Fermi (GBM trigger 620108997),
Konus-Wind, INTEGRAL (SPI-ACS), AstroSat (CZTI),
AGILE (SA), and Mars-Odyssey (HEND),
so far, at about 16193 s UT (04:29:53).
We have triangulated it to a preliminary, 3 sigma error box
whose coordinates are:
---------------------------------------------
RA(2000), deg Dec(2000), deg
---------------------------------------------
Center:
6.817 (00h 27m 16s) +34.038 (+34d 02' 18")
Corners:
7.081 (00h 28m 19s) +34.000 (+34d 00' 00")
6.808 (00h 27m 14s) +34.222 (+34d 13' 21")
6.553 (00h 26m 13s) +34.075 (+34d 04' 31")
6.826 (00h 27m 18s) +33.854 (+33d 51' 14")
---------------------------------------------
The error box area is 288 sq. arcmin, and its maximum
dimension is 27 arcmin (the minimum one is 15 arcmin).
The Sun distance was 126 deg.
This box may be improved.
The IPN localization is consistent with, but reduces the area of, the Fermi
RoboBA and BALROG localizations (GCN Circ. 28284 and 28286).
A triangulation map is posted at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB200826_T16195/IPN
The Konus-Wind time history and spectrum will be given in a forthcoming
GCN Circular.
GCN Circular 28293
Subject
GRB200826A: Zwicky Transient Facility Follow-Up of a Fermi Short GRB (Trigger 620108997)
Date
2020-08-26T22:32:02Z (5 years ago)
From
Tomas Ahumada at U. of Maryland <tahumada@astro.umd.edu>
Ana Sagues Carracedo (OKC), Harsh Kumar (IITB), Tomas Ahumada (UMD), Igor
Andreoni (Caltech), Shreya Anand (Caltech), Robert Stein (DESY), Michael
Coughlin (UMN), Leo Singer (NASA/GSFC) on behalf of the Zwicky Transient
Facility (ZTF) and Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen
(GROWTH) collaborations
We observed the localization region of the short GRB200826A (trigger
620108997) detected by the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) on the Fermi
satellite with the Palomar 48 inch telescope equipped with the 47 square
degree Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) camera.
We obtained a series of g- and r-band images covering 185.5 square degrees
beginning at 09:22:55 UT on 2020 Aug 26 (about 5 hours after the burst
trigger time). This corresponds to ~77.5% of the probability enclosed in
the GRB localization map (GCN 28284). Each exposure was 300s, reaching a
g-band median depth of 22.3 mag and r-band median depth of 22.1 mag. The
median limiting magnitude of the last 5 survey-mode nights (30 sec
exposures) was g ~ 20.6 mag and r ~ 20.0 mag, limiting our capability to
temporally constrain some of our faintest transients. The images were
processed in real-time through the ZTF reduction and image subtraction
pipelines at IPAC (Masci et al. 2019).
We queried the ZTF alert stream using Kowalski (Duev et al. 2019) and AMPEL
(Nordin et al. 2019). We required at least 2 detections separated by at
least 15 minutes to select against moving objects. Furthermore, we
cross-matched our candidates with the Minor Planet Center to flag known
asteroids, reject stellar sources (Tachibana and Miller 2018), and apply
machine learning algorithms (Duev et al. 2019, Mahabal et al. 2019). We
require no spatially coincident ZTF alert to be issued before the detection
time of the GBM trigger. The candidates within the 95% probability contour
of the GRB localization map that passed the automatic selection criteria
and human vetting are presented in the table below.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ZTF Name | IAU Name | RA (deg) | DEC (deg) | Filter | Mag |
MagErr | g-r |MJD | Notes |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ZTF20abwyple | AT2020sbi | 1.3824038 | 37.3638915 | r | 21.2 | 0.11 |
0.13 | 2459087.9109491 | (a) |
| ZTF20abwyueq | AT2020sbn | 9.2615748 | 39.6340049 | r | 21.8 | 0.13 |
0.08 | 2459087.9219444 | (a) |
| ZTF20abwyzdb | AT2020sbp | 9.2046817 | 43.6712369 | r | 21.7 | 0.17 |
0.4 | 2459087.9219444 | (b) |
| ZTF20abwytgj | AT2020sbc | 5.7051754 | 29.8539268 | r | 22.0 | 0.19 |
0.09 | 2459087.9181366 | (a) |
| ZTF20abwysgz | AT2020sbm | 8.2746333 | 30.7142518 | r | 20.2 | 0.05 |
0.1 | 2459087.9181366 | (a) |
| ZTF20abwywiz | AT2020sbv | 1.4094587 | 36.2573281 | r | 21.9 | 0.21 |
0.45 | 2459087.9145486 | (b) |
| ZTF20abwyrop | AT2020sbd | 359.33861 | 31.1190224 | r | 21.5 | 0.12 |
0.22 | 2459087.9145486 | (c) |
| ZTF20abwyxpj | AT2020sbs | 12.411974 | 31.7868639 | r | 21.8 | 0.16 |
0.35 | 2459087.9181366 | (c)(d) |
| ZTF20abwypor | AT2020sbk | 6.8956443 | 37.2409844 | r | 21.5 | 0.13 |
0.15 | 2459087.9109491 | (c) |
| ZTF20abwyvrl | AT2020sbj | 2.7749043 | 37.6768649 | r | 21.9 | 0.21 |
0.34 | 2459087.9109491 | (a) |
| ZTF20abwypqf | AT2020sbl | 5.1321015 | 39.4099175 | r | 21.8 | 0.21 |
0.0 | 2459087.9109491 | (a) |
| ZTF20abwyrzs | AT2020sbo | 359.79701 | 32.1773094 | r | 21.6 | 0.17 |
0.09 | 2459087.9145486 | (a)(d)(e) |
| ZTF20abwzabz | AT2020sbr | 12.580528 | 42.6494866 | r | 21.9 | 0.16 |
0.02 | 2459087.9219444 | (b)(e) |
| ZTF20abwysmm | AT2020sbt | 11.333202 | 33.4189371 | r | 21.5 | 0.14 |
0.0 | 2459087.9181366 | (d)(e) |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Notes:
(a) offset from a galaxy
(b) nuclear
(c) hostless
(d) PS1 detection at source position
(e) possible point-like source underneath
We checked for galaxies in the GLADE catalog (Dalya et al. 2018) around 100
arcsec of each candidate in the table above. We found crossmatches for
ZTF20abwysgz, which is 25.8 arcsec or 81.7 kpc away from a GLADE galaxy,
and ZTF20abwyrzs, 35.9 arcsec or 163.1 kpc offset. However, there are
several ZTF sources closer in the image to both candidates, which makes an
association between the ZTF candidates and GLADE galaxies improbable. In
fact, many candidates (including ZTF20abwysgz and ZTF20abwyrzs) appear to
be a few arcseconds offset from their possible host galaxies:
name | separation |
-------------+--------------
ZTF20abwyple | ~2.7 arcsec |
ZTF20abwypqf | ~1.1 arcsec |
ZTF20abwyple | ~2.6 arcsec |
ZTF20abwyueq | ~1.9 arcsec |
ZTF20abwytgj | ~2.0 arcsec |
ZTF20abwysgz | ~1.6 arcsec |
ZTF20abwyvrl | ~2.3 arcsec |
ZTF20abwypqf | ~5.3 arcsec |
ZTF20abwyrzs | ~5.0 arcsec |
Follow-up observations of these candidates is encouraged.
ZTF and GROWTH are worldwide collaborations comprising Caltech, USA; IPAC,
USA, WIS, Israel; OKC, Sweden; JSI/UMd, USA; U Washington, USA; DESY,
Germany; MOST, Taiwan; UW Milwaukee, USA; LANL USA; Tokyo Tech, Japan;
IITB, India; IIA, India; LJMU, UK; TTU, USA; SDSU, USA and USyd, Australia.
ZTF acknowledges the generous support of the NSF under AST MSIP Grant No
1440341.
GROWTH acknowledges generous support of the NSF under PIRE Grant No 1545949.
Alert distribution service provided by DIRAC@UW (Patterson et al. 2019).
Alert database searches are done by AMPEL (Nordin et al. 2019) and Kowalski
(Duev et al. 2019).
GCN Circular 28294
Subject
Konus-Wind detection of GRB 200826A
Date
2020-08-27T13:29:13Z (5 years ago)
From
Anna Ridnaia at Ioffe Institute <ridnaia@mail.ioffe.ru>
A. Ridnaia, S. Golenetskii, R. Aptekar, D. Frederiks,
M. Ulanov, D. Svinkin, A. Tsvetkova, A. Lysenko, and T. Cline
on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report:
The short-duration GRB 200826A
(Fermi-GBM detection: The Fermi GBM Team, GCN Circ. 28284;
Mangan et al., GCN Circ. 28287;
BALROG localization: Kunzweiler et al., GCN Circ. 28286;
AstroSat-CZTI detection: Gupta et al., GCN Circ. 28288;
AGILE detection: Pittori et al., GCN Circ. 28289;
IPN triangulation: Hurley et al., GCN Circ. 28291)
triggered Konus-Wind at T0=16195.106 s UT (04:29:55.106).
The burst light curve shows a multipeaked pulse
which starts at ~T0-0.1 s with a total duration of ~1.6 s.
The emission is seen up to ~2 MeV.
The Konus-Wind light curve of this GRB is available at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB200826_T16195/
As observed by Konus-Wind, the burst
had a fluence of 3.30(-0.42,+0.47)x10^-6 erg/cm2,
and a 16-ms peak flux, measured from T0+0.560 s,
of 9.04(-2.49,+2.63)x10^-6 erg/cm2/s
(both in the 20 keV - 10 MeV energy range).
The time-averaged spectrum of the burst
(measured from T0 to T0+8.448 s)
is best fit in the 20 keV - 2 MeV range
by the GRB (Band) model with the following parameters:
the low-energy photon index alpha = 1.27(-1.78,+4.03),
the high-energy photon index beta = -2.32(-0.25,+0.19),
the peak energy Ep = 67(-17,+31) keV
(chi2 = 50/59 dof).
All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level.
All the quoted values are preliminary.
GCN Circular 28295
Subject
GRB200826A: Zwicky Transient Facility Identifies Optical Afterglow Candidate of a Fermi Short GRB (Trigger 620108997)
Date
2020-08-27T16:42:00Z (5 years ago)
From
Tomas Ahumada at U. of Maryland <tahumada@astro.umd.edu>
Tomas Ahumada (UMD), Shreya Anand (Caltech), Robert Stein (DESY), Harsh
Kumar (IITB), Ana Sagues Carracedo (OKC), Igor Andreoni (Caltech), Michael
Coughlin (UMN), Leo Singer (NASA/GSFC), Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech), Daniel
Perley (LJMU), Brad Cenko (NASA/GSFC), Varun Bhalerao (IITB), David Kaplan
(UWM) on behalf of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and Global Relay of
Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) collaborations
We continued a second night of monitoring the localization region of the
short GRB200826A (Fermi trigger 620108997; GCN 28284, 28287) with the
Zwicky Transient Facility (first night summary in Sagues Carracedo et al.
GCN 28293). Each exposure was 600s, reaching a g-band median depth of 22.3
mag and r-band median depth of 22.3 mag. IPN also triangulated this GRB
(Hurley et al. GCN 28291). Our total coverage was >99% of the joint
Fermi-IPN localization.
We followed standard candidate vetting procedures. We identify the
following compelling candidate for the optical afterglow:
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| ZTF Name | IAU Name | RA (deg) | DEC (deg) | Filter | Mag |
MagErr |MJD |
+---------------+-----------+-----------+-------------+--------+-------+--------+-----------------+
| ZTF20abwysqy | AT2020scz