GRB 210824A
GCN Circular 30730
Subject
GRB 210824A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
Date
2021-08-27T15:52:44Z (4 years ago)
From
Sam LaPorte at PSU <sjl5346@psu.edu>
GRB 210824A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits
S. J. LaPorte (PSU) and K. L. Page (U. Leicester)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 210824A
311 s after the BAT trigger (Page et al., GCN Circ. 30700).
No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position
(Goad et al. GCN Circ. 30702)
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 311 461 147 >20.8
white 311 4350 364 >20.9
v 467 4760 236 >19.4
b 565 4145 235 >20.1
u 541 5220 83 >19.6
w1 516 5170 236 >20.4
m2 4765 4965 197 >20.3
w2 4356 4555 197 >19.9
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.037 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
GCN Circular 30722
Subject
GRB 210824A: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2021-08-26T19:38:20Z (4 years ago)
From
Hans Krimm at NSF/NASA-GSFC <hkrimm@nsf.gov>
C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), H. A. Krimm (NSF),
S. Laha (GSFC/UMBC), A. Y. Lien (U Tampa), K. L. Page (U Leicester),
D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (AGU), M. Stamatikos (OSU)
(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 210824A (trigger #1070157)
(Page, et al., GCN Circ. 30700). The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 232.115, 11.169 deg which is
RA(J2000) = 15h 28m 27.5s
Dec(J2000) = +11d 10' 09.9"
with an uncertainty of 1.2 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 60%.
The mask-weighted light curve shows a single broad pulse with some sub-structure.
It begins around T-15 sec, peaks at the trigger time and decays to background by
T+40 sec. We note that the light curve has a gap from T+110 sec to T+240 sec due to the
burst going out of the field of view (for a pre-planned slew that started before the trigger
had been fully processed) and then coming back into FOV when the pre-planned slew ended
and the automated target slew had started. The burst appears to be over before this time.
T90 (15-350 keV) is 37.55 +- 4.79 sec (estimated error including systematics).
The time-averaged spectrum from T-13.70 to T+30.94 sec is best fit by a simple
power-law model. The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
1.18 +- 0.11. The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 1.7 +- 0.1 x 10^-6 erg/cm2.
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+1.02 sec in the 15-150 keV band
is 1.3 +- 0.2 ph/cm2/sec. 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/1070157/BA/
GCN Circular 30718
Subject
GRB 210824A: MITSuME Akeno optical upper limits
Date
2021-08-26T09:48:44Z (4 years ago)
From
Masafumi Niwano at Tokyo Institute of Tech <niwano@hp.phys.titech.ac.jp>
M. Niwano, K. L. Murata, R. Hosokawa, N. Ito, Y. Imai, H. Takamatsu, R.
Noto, S. Sato, M. Takaku, R. Yamaguchi, Y. Yatsu, and N. Kawai
(TokyoTech) report on behalf of the MITSuME collaboration:
We observed the field of GRB 210824A (Fermi GBM team, GCN Circular
#30699, K. L. Page et al. GCN Circular #30700, M.R. Goad et al. GCN
Circular #30702, V. D'Elia et al. GCN Circular #30704, X. Liu et al. GCN
Circular #30705