GRB 240910A
GCN Circular 37734
Subject
GRB 240910A: LBT optical observations
Date
2024-10-08T12:52:51Z (2 years ago)
From
Andrea Rossi at INAF <andrea.rossi@inaf.it>
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A. Rossi, E. Maiorano (INAF-OAS), and D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud Univ.), report on behalf of the CIBO collaboration:
We observed the field of GRB 240910A (Zhang et al. GCN 37445; Ripa et al. GCN 37450; Godwin, GCN 37464) with the LBC camera mounted on LBT (Mt. Graham, AZ, USA) in r’ and z’ bands (15 min exposure time per filter) approximately at midtime 06:20:00 UT on 2024-09-26 (16.1 days after the burst). Observations were performed under mediocre weather conditions and an average seeing of ~1.7".
At the location of the afterglow (Julakanti et al. GCN 37459; Jiang et al. GCN 37460; D’Ai et al. GCN 37461; Malesani et al. GCN 37463; Qiu et al. GCN 37503; Evans et al., GCN 37553; Giarratana et al., GCN 37569) we detect a faint source with the following AB magnitudes:
r’ = 26.1 +- 0.4,
z' > 24.4,
calibrated against SDSS field stars, and not corrected for foreground Galactic extinction.
We acknowledge the excellent support from the LBTO and LBT-INAF staff, particularly F. Cusano and D.Paris in obtaining these observations.
GCN Circular 37569
Subject
GRB 240910A: radio detection with the VLA
Date
2024-09-20T12:28:03Z (2 years ago)
From
Stefano Giarratana at INAF-OAB <s.giarratana@ira.inaf.it>
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S. Giarratana (INAF-OAB), M. Giroletti (INAF-IRA),
G. Ghirlanda (INAF-OAB), N. Di Lalla (Stanford Univ.),
N. Omodei (Stanford Univ.), O. S. Salafia (INAF-OAB)
At 05:42:45 UT on 2024 Sept 13 (T_mid = 3.10 days post-burst)
the Karl G. Jansky VLA observed the field of GRB 240910A
(Fermi GBM team, GCN 37441, 37464; SVOM team, GCN37445, 37503)
at a central frequency of 6, 10 and 15 GHz.
The standard 3C48 was used as bandpass and flux density
calibrator, while J0125-0005 was used as phase calibrator.
From a preliminary analysis, an unresolved radio source
is clearly detected at a position:
RA: 01:36:23.458 +- 0.003
Dec: -00:12:17.42 +- 0.05
consistent with the optical (GOTO collaboration, GCN 37459;
Jiang et al., GCN 37460) and X-ray (D'Ai et al., GCN 37461)
transient.
The surface brightness peak is 137 uJy/beam, 114 uJy/b and
86 uJy/beam at 6, 10 and 15 GHz, respectively.
The r.m.s. noise level of the images is 7 uJy/beam at 6 GHz,
7 uJy/b at 10 GHz and 9 uJy/b at 15 GHz.
The synthesized beams are 1.36x1.01 arcsec (PA: -48deg)
at 6 GHz, 0.79x0.63 arcsec (PA: -50deg) at 10 GHz
and 0.61x0.43 arcsec (PA: -56deg) at 15 GHz.
While no source is detected with a 3sigma confidence at the
aforementioned position in previous radio surveys (FIRST, NVSS,
VLASS, RACS), their r.m.s. noise levels (1sigma) is above
100 uJy/b. Therefore, we cannot exclude the contribution from
the GRB host galaxy yet.
We would like to thank the staff of the VLA for approving, executing,
and processing the observations.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National
Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated
Universities, Inc.
These observations were carried out as part of project SF171028,
approved in the framework of the Fermi - NRAO joint program agreement.
GCN Circular 37553
Subject
GRB 240910A: further Swift observations and confirmation of afterglow
Date
2024-09-19T07:02:34Z (2 years ago)
From
K.L. Page at U Leicester <klp5@leicester.ac.uk>
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P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), M.H. Siegel (PSU) and K.L. Page (U. Leicester)
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT and UVOT teams:
Swift has re-observed the putative afterglow of GRB 240910A, first
reported by Julakanti et al. (GCN Circ. 37459) at two additional epochs.
2.8 ks of data were taken between T0+282 ks and T0+329 ks, and a further
4.2 ks between T0+679 ks and T0+708 ks. The X-ray counterpart (D'Ai et
al., GCN Circ. 37461) clearly fades between epochs. The light curve can be
modelled with a power-law decay with a decay index of alpha=1.1 (+0.4,
-0.3).
UVOT observed the field in the u, v and white filters. A faint source was
detected in the first epoch at the XRT position with a u magnitude of
20.65 +/- 0.28 with a significance of 3.8 sigma. The second epoch detected
no counterpart to a 3 sigma upper limit of 21.51.
We therefore confirm that GOTO24fvl/AT2024vfp is the afterglow of GRB
240910A.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT and UVOT teams.
GCN Circular 37503
Subject
GRB 240910A: SVOM/VT optical observations
Date
2024-09-14T12:52:54Z (2 years ago)
Edited On
2024-09-14T13:57:14Z (2 years ago)
From
Liping Xin at NAOC, SVOM <xlp@nao.cas.cn>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Liping Xin at NAOC, SVOM <xlp@nao.cas.cn>
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SVOM/VT commissioning team: Y. L.Qiu, L. P. Xin, H. L. Li, C. Wu, X. H. Han, W. J. Xie, H. B. Cai, Y. Xu, Y. J. Xiao, P. P. Zhang, J. S. Deng, L. Lan, X. M. Lu, R. S. Zhang (NAOC), J. Zhang, L. J. Dan, G. Y. Zou, C. J. Wang, Y. F. Du, C. Huang (XIOPM) and Palmerio, J. (CEA).
SVOM JSWG: Jian-Yan Wei (NAOC), Bertrand Cordier (CEA), Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP), Stéphane Basa (LAM), Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP), Arnaud Claret (CEA), Zi-Gao Dai (USTC), Frédéric Daigne (IAP), Jin-Song Deng (NAOC), Andrea Goldwurm (APC), Diego Götz (CEA), Xu-Hui Han (NAOC), Cyril Lachaud (APC), En-Wei Liang (GXU), Yu-Lei Qiu (NAOC), Susanna Vergani (Obs.Paris), Jing Wang (NAOC), Chao Wu (NAOC), Li-Ping Xin (NAOC), Bing Zhang (UNLV)
report on behalf of the SVOM team:
During the commissioning phase of SVOM mission, we observed the field of the GRB 240910A (Fermi team, GCN 37441, Zhang et al. GCN 37445) with SVOM/VT telescope in ToO mode. The observation started at 2024-09-12T13:51:13 UT, about 57.8 hours after the burst, and lasted for about 2.7 ks. VT made the observations with two channels simultaneously, VT_B (400nm-650nm) and VT_R (650nm-1000nm).
The optical afterglow (Julakanti et al. GCN 37459; Jiang et al., GCN 37460; Malesani et al. GCN 37463; de Ugarte Postigo et al., GCN 37467) was detected in the VT stacked images, the magnitudes obtained by VT were: VT_B=22.24+/-0.07 mag, and VT_R=21.50+/-0.05 mag in AB magnitude.
More detailed analysis is ongoing.
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a China-France joint mission led by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA, China), National Center for Space Studies (CNES, France) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS, China), which is dedicated to observing gamma-ray bursts and other transient phenomena in the energetic universe. VT is an optical telescope on board SVOM with an aperture of 44 cm, designed to automatically follow the Eclairs triggers. It has two channels: VT_B and VT_R, covering wavelengths from 400 nm to 650 nm and 650 nm to 1000 nm, respectively. The two bands are observed simultaneously. VT was jointly developed by Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), CAS and National astronomical observatories (NAOC),CAS.
GCN Circular 37467
Subject
GRB 240910A: Redshift from OSIRIS+/GTC
Date
2024-09-12T05:13:32Z (2 years ago)
From
Antonio de Ugarte Postigo at LAM/OCA, CNRS <deugarte@oca.eu>
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A. de Ugarte Postigo (LAM/OCA, CNRS), J. F. Agui Fernandez (CAHA), C. C. Thoene (ASU-CAS), N. A. Rakotondrainibe (LAM), N. R. Tanvir (U. Leicester), L. Izzo (INAF-Naples), S. Geier (GTC), G. Lombardi (GTC), J. P. U. Fynbo (DAWN/NBI), A. Martin-Carrillo (UCD), A. Garcia Rodriguez (GTC), A. Perez Romero (GTC) report,
We observed the afterglow (Julakanti et al. GCN 37459; D’Ai et al. GCN 37461; Malesani et al. GCN 37463) of the long GRB 240910A, detected by Fermi (Fermi team, GCN 37441), SVOM (Zhang et al. GCN 37445) and GRBAlpha (Ripa et al. GCN 37450) using OSIRIS+ mounted on the 10.4 m GTC telescope, at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma, Spain). The observation consisted in 3 acquisition images in r-band, followed by 3x1200 s spectra, with grism R1000B, covering the spectral range between 3650 and 7800 AA at a resolving power of 600. The spectra were obtained at a mean epoch 2024-09-12T03:39:07 UT, 1.985 days after the Fermi trigger.
The continuum is well detected in the complete spectral range and there are multiple features of CIV, FeII, AlII, AlIII, ZnII, MnII, MgII, MgI at a common redshift of z = 1.460, which we propose as the redshift of the GRB.
GCN Circular 37464
Subject
GRB 240910A: Fermi GBM Observation
Date
2024-09-12T01:55:19Z (2 years ago)
From
Matt Godwin <msg0028@uah.edu>
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M. Godwin (UAH) reports on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:
"At 04:00:44.21 UT on 10 September 2024, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM)
triggered and located GRB 240910A (trigger 747633649 / 240910167) which was also detected by the
Swift/BAT (A. D'ai et al. 2024, GCN 37461) and GOTO (Julakanti et al., 2024, GCN 37459).
The GBM on-ground location is consistent with the Swift position.
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight at the GBM trigger time is 101 degrees.
The GBM light curve consists of multiple peaks with a duration (T90)
of about 272 s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum
from T0+0 to T0+272.4 s is best fit by
a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff.
The power law index is -1.23 +/- 0.05 and the cutoff energy,
parameterized as Epeak, is 125 +/- 9 keV.
The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(1.911 +/- 0.073)E-05 erg/cm^2. The 1s peak photon flux measured
starting from T0+86.1s in the 10-1000 keV band is 6.1 +/- 0.3 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 37463
Subject
GRB 240910A: NOT optical observations
Date
2024-09-12T01:32:55Z (2 years ago)
Edited On
2025-04-08T14:35:48Z (2 years ago)
From
Daniele B. Malesani at IMAPP / Radboud University <d.malesani@astro.ru.nl>
Edited By
Vidushi Sharma at NASA GSFC/UMBC <vidushi.sharma@nasa.gov> on behalf of Daniele B. Malesani at IMAPP / Radboud University <d.malesani@astro.ru.nl>
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