GRB 240106A
GCN Circular 35490
Subject
GRB 240106A: Fermi GBM Final Real-time Localization
Date
2024-01-06T00:44:36Z (a year ago)
From
Fermi GBM Team at MSFC/Fermi-GBM <do_not_reply@GIOC.nsstc.nasa.gov>
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The Fermi GBM team reports the detection of a likely LONG GRB
At 00:34:08 UT on 6 Jan 2024, the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) triggered and located GRB 240106A (trigger 726194053.403458 / 240106024).
The on-ground calculated location, using the Fermi GBM trigger data, is RA = 8.0, Dec = 53.7 (J2000 degrees, equivalent to J2000 00h 32m, 53d 42'), with a statistical uncertainty of 1.7 degrees.
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is 17.0 degrees.
The skymap can be found here:
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/fermi/data/gbm/triggers/2024/bn240106024/quicklook/glg_skymap_all_bn240106024.png
The HEALPix FITS file, including the estimated localization systematic, can be found here:
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/fermi/data/gbm/triggers/2024/bn240106024/quicklook/glg_healpix_all_bn240106024.fit
The GBM light curve can be found here:
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/fermi/data/gbm/triggers/2024/bn240106024/quicklook/glg_lc_medres34_bn240106024.gif
GCN Circular 35497
Subject
GRB 240106A: GRBAlpha detection
Date
2024-01-08T09:43:50Z (a year ago)
From
Marianna Dafčíková at Masaryk University <500025@mail.muni.cz>
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M. Dafcikova, J. Ripa (Masaryk U.), A. Pal (Konkoly Observatory), N. Werner (Masaryk U.), M. Ohno, H. Takahashi (Hiroshima U.), L. Meszaros, B. Csak (Konkoly Observatory), N. Husarikova, F. Munz , M. Topinka, M. Kolar, L. Szakszonova, J.-P. Breuer, F. Hroch (Masaryk U.), T. Urbanec, M. Kasal, A. Povalac (Brno U. of Technology), J. Hudec, J. Kapus, M. Frajt (Spacemanic s.r.o), R. Laszlo, M. Koleda (Needronix s.r.o), M. Smelko, P. Hanak, P. Lipovsky (Technical U. of Kosice), G. Galgoczi (Wigner Research Center/Eotvos U.), Y. Uchida, H. Poon, H. Matake (Hiroshima U.), N. Uchida (ISAS/JAXA), T. Bozoki (Eotvos U.), G. Dalya (Eotvos U.), T. Enoto (Kyoto U.), Zs. Frei (Eotvos U.), G. Friss (Eotvos U.), Y. Fukazawa, K. Hirose (Hiroshima U.), S. Hisadomi (Nagoya U.), Y. Ichinohe (Rikkyo U.), K. Kapas (Eotvos U.), L. L. Kiss (Konkoly Observatory), T. Mizuno (Hiroshima U.), K. Nakazawa (Nagoya U.), H. Odaka (Univ of Tokyo), J. Takatsy (Eotvos U.), K. Torigoe (Hiroshima U.), N. Kogiso, M. Yoneyama (Osaka Metropolitan U.), M. Moritaki (U. Tokyo), T. Kano (U. Michigan) -- the GRBAlpha collaboration.
The long-duration GRB 240106A (Fermi/GBM detection: GCN 35490; CALET/CGBM detection: trigger no. 1388536424; INTEGRAL/SPI-ACS peak detection at 2024-01-06 ~00:36:35 UT) was observed by the GRBAlpha 1U CubeSat (Pal et al. 2023, A&A, 677, 40; arXiv:2302.10048).
The detection was confirmed at the peak time 2024-01-06 00:36:37 UTC. The T90 duration measured by GRBAlpha is 148 s and the overall significance during T90 reaches 16 sigma.
The light curve obtained by GRBAlpha is available here: https://grbalpha.konkoly.hu/static/share/GRB240106A_GCN.pdf
All GRBAlpha detections are listed at: https://monoceros.physics.muni.cz/hea/GRBAlpha/
GRBAlpha, launched on 2021 March 22, is a demonstration mission for a future CubeSat constellation (Werner et al. Proc. SPIE 2018). The detector of GRBAlpha consists of a 75 x 75 x 5 mm3 CsI scintillator read out by a SiPM array, covering the energy range from ~50 keV to ~1000 keV. To increase the duty cycle and the downlink rate, the upgrade of the on-board data acquisition software stack is in progress. The ground segment is also supported by the radio amateur community and it takes advantage of the SatNOGS network for increased data downlink volume.
GCN Circular 35513
Subject
GRB 240106A: Glowbug gamma-ray detection
Date
2024-01-09T22:03:58Z (a year ago)
From
C.C. Cheung at Naval Research Lab <Teddy.Cheung@nrl.navy.mil>
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C.C. Cheung, M. Kerr, J. E. Grove, R. Woolf (NRL), A. Goldstein (USRA), C.A. Wilson-Hodge (MSFC), and M.S. Briggs (UAH) report:
The Glowbug gamma-ray telescope [1,2], operating on the International Space Station, reports the detection of GRB 240106A, which was also detected by Fermi/GBM, GRBAlpha, CALET/CGBM, and INTEGRAL/SPI-ACS (GCN #35490, #35497).
Using an adaptive window with a resolution of 32-ms, the burst onset is determined to be 2024-01-06 00:34:17.784 with a duration of 146.4 s and a total significance of over 97 sigma.
The light curve comprises a complex multi-peaked structure with the brightest interval from T0+127.5s to T0+146.4s. Using a standard power-law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff [3] to model the emission over the brightest interval results in a photon index dN/dE~E^x of x=1.1 and a cutoff energy ("Epeak") of 281 keV. The modeled 10-10000 keV fluence for the brightest interval is 1e-05 erg/cm^2.
The analysis results presented here are preliminary and use a response function that lacks a detailed characterization of the surrounding passive structure of the ISS.
Glowbug is a NASA-funded technology demonstrator for sensitive, low-cost gamma-ray transient telescopes developed, built, and operated by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) with support from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USRA, and NASA MSFC. It was launched on 2023 March 15 aboard the Department of Defense Space Test Program’s STP-H9 to the ISS. The detector comprises 12 large-area (15 cm x 15 cm) CsI:Tl panels covering the surface of a half cube, and two hexagonal (5-cm diameter, 10-cm length) CLLB scintillators, giving it a large field of view (instantaneous FoV ~2/3 sky) over a wide energy band of 50 keV to >2 MeV.
[1] Grove, J.E. et al. 2020, Proc. Yamada Conf. LXXI, arXiv:2009.11959
[2] Woolf, R.S. et al. 2022, Proc. SPIE, 12181, id. 121811O
[3] Goldstein, A. et al. 2020, ApJ 895, 40, arXiv :1909.03006
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