GRB 241105A
GCN Circular 38654
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GRB 241105A: JWST photometric observations of the host galaxy
Date
2024-12-23T18:01:25Z (2 years ago)
From
Dimple at University of Birmingham <dimplepanchal96@gmail.com>
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Dimple (U. Birmingham), B. P. Gompertz (U. Birmingham), A. J. Levan (Radboud Univ. and Warwick Univ.), D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud Univ.), A. Martin-Carrillo (UCD), M. E. Ravasio (Radboud Univ.), L. Izzo (INAF/OACn & DARK/NBI), Andrea Rossi (INAF/OAS), P. D'Avanzo (INAF/OABr), N. R. Tanvir (U. Leicester) on behalf of a larger collaboration:
We conducted photometric observations of the GRB 241105A field (Fermi GBM team, GCN 38085; DeLaunay et al., GCN 38091; Frederiks et al., GCN 38103; Julakanti et al., GCN 38088; Izzo et al., GCN 38097; SVOM/VT team, GCN 38099; Hu et al., GCN 38106) at a redshift of z = 2.681 (Izzo et al., GCN 38167) using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST; DDT program 9228, PI: Dimple). These observations, carried out with the NIRCam instrument in multiple bands (F070W, F115W, F150W, F277W, F356W, F444W), began on 2024-12-22 at 17:26 UT, approximately 47 days after the trigger (~12.7 days in the GRB rest frame).
The bright galaxy identified in archival images (Julakanti et al., GCN 38088) is well detected in all observed bands, and is resolved into at least two bright, extended spots about 0.2" apart. The afterglow position is within 0.06" of the NE spot centroid (about 500 pc in projection at z = 2.681). The NE patch has a magnitude of F277W(AB) = 22.54±0.03. This is significantly brighter than a SN akin to SN 1998bw at z = 2.681, which would peak at magnitude ~26.3 In the same filter, making it hard to determine the contribution from an underlying SN, should any be present. Subtraction of the galaxy's contribution, which will be possible with late-time imaging, will help to single out any transient emission.
We acknowledge the support from Weston Eck and Armin Rest (STScI) in preparing these observations.
GCN Circular 38302
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GRB 241105A: ATCA radio detection
Date
2024-11-23T03:45:15Z (2 years ago)
From
Gemma Anderson at Curtin U <gemma.anderson@curtin.edu.au>
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G. E. Anderson (Curtin), S. Chastain (UNM), S. Belkin (Monash), J. K. Leung (UofT/HUJI), A. J. van der Horst (GWU), L. Rhodes (TSI/McGill), A. Gulati (USyd), B. Gompertz (Birmingham) on behalf of the PanRadio GRB collaboration
We re-observed GRB 241105A (Fermi GBM Collaboration, GCN 38085) with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) 15 days post-burst on 2024-11-20 (11:00-19:00 UT). We detected a radio source coincident with the location of the optical counterpart (Julakanti et al. GCN 38088, Izzo et al., GCN 38097; SVOM/VT team, GCN 38099; Hu et al., GCN 38106; Siegel et al., GCN 38110; Dichiara et al., GCN 38111; Rastinejad et al., GCN 38113; Tsalapatas et al., GCN 38119) at 9 GHz with a flux density of ~100 microJy/beam (rms of 11 microJy/beam). Further observations are planned.
We thank the CSIRO Space and Astronomy staff for supporting these observations.
We acknowledge the Gomeroi people as the traditional owners of the Observatory site. The Australia Telescope Compact Array is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (https://ror.org/05qajvd42) which is funded by the Australian Government for operation as a National Facility managed by CSIRO.
GCN Circular 38189
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GRB 241105A: ATCA Radio Upper Limits
Date
2024-11-13T05:19:36Z (2 years ago)
From
Gemma Anderson at Curtin U <gemma.anderson@curtin.edu.au>
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G. E. Anderson (Curtin), S. Belkin (Monash), J. K. Leung (UofT/HUJI), A. J. van der Horst (GWU), L. Rhodes (TSI/McGill), A. Gulati (USyd), S. Chastain (UNM), B. Gompertz (Birmingham) on behalf of the ATCA PanRadio GRB collaboration
We observed the likely short GRB 241105A (Fermi GBM Collaboration, GCN 38085) with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) 4.8 days post-burst on 2024-11-10 (08:30-13:30 UT). No radio source was detected at the location of the optical counterpart (Julakanti et al. GCN 38088, Izzo et al., GCN 38097; SVOM/VT team, GCN 38099; Hu et al., GCN 38106; Siegel et al., GCN 38110; Dichiara et al., GCN 38111; Rastinejad et al., GCN 38113; Tsalapatas et al., GCN 38119) at 5.5 and 9 GHz, with 3-sigma upper limits of 54 and 39 microJy/beam, respectively.
We thank the CSIRO Space and Astronomy staff for supporting these observations.
We acknowledge the Gomeroi people as the traditional owners of the Observatory site. The Australia Telescope Compact Array is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (https://ror.org/05qajvd42) which is funded by the Australian Government for operation as a National Facility managed by CSIRO.
GCN Circular 38167
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GRB 241105A: VLT/FORS2 refined spectroscopic redshift z = 2.681
Date
2024-11-11T14:28:48Z (2 years ago)
From
Antonio Martin-Carrillo at UCD,Space Science Group <antonio.martin-carrillo@ucd.ie>
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L. Izzo (INAF-OACn & DARK/NBI), A. A. Chrimes (ESA/ESTEC & Radboud Univ.), D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud Univ.), A. Saccardi (CEA/Irfu), A. Martin-Carrillo (UCD), A. J. Levan (Radboud Univ. and Warwick Univ.), B. P. Gompertz (Birmingham), N. R. Tanvir (U. Leicester), J. T. Palmerio (CEA/Irfu), report on behalf of the Stargate collaboration:
Using the most updated calibration files, we have produced an improved reduction of the VLT/FORS2 afterglow spectrum (Izzo et al., GCN 38097) of GRB 241105A (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 38085; Yulakanti et al., GCN 38088). Compared to our preliminary version based on archival calibrations, we have found a slight discrepancy in the wavelength solution.
Based on the same features already discussed in our previous GCN 38097, the refined redshift we measure for GRB 241105A is z = 2.681. This change implies a modest reduction of ~1% and ~2% in the Eiso and Liso values reported by Frederiks et al. (GCN 38103) and Pathak et al. (GCN 38104).
GCN Circular 38124
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GRB 241105A: EP-FXT follow-up observations
Date
2024-11-08T06:40:17Z (2 years ago)
From
EP Team at NAOC/CAS <ep_ta@bao.ac.cn>
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H. Zhou (PMO, CAS), R.-Z. Li (YNAO, CAS), X. L. Chen, K. Chatterjee (YNU), S. Q. Jiang, T. Zhao, D. Y. Li, W. Chen, C. C. Jin, H. W. Pan (NAO,CAS), E. Troja (U Rome), X. F. Wu (PMO, CAS), P. Jonker (Radboud Univ.) report on behalf of the Einstein Probe team:
The Follow-up X-ray telescope (FXT) on board the Einstein Probe mission performed two follow-up observations of GRB 241105A (Fermi GBM team, GCN 38085; DeLaunay et al., GCN 38091; Frederiks et al., GCN 38103), and detected a fading uncataloged X-ray source. The EP-FXT loaction of the X-ray source is consistent with the location of the optical counterpart of GRB 241105A (Julakanti et al., GCN 38088; Izzo et al., GCN 38097; SVOM/VT team, GCN 38099; Hu et al., GCN 38106).
The results are reported:
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
T_start (UTC) | T_end (UTC) | Exposure (s) | T_mid - T_0 (h) | Flux (0.5-10keV, erg/s/cm^2)
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
2024-11-06T13:40:26 | 2024-11-06T14:28:44 | 2894 | 22.0 | (1.51+/-0.31)E-13
2024-11-07T04:05:45 | 2024-11-07T08:05:40 | 7966 | 38.0 | (3.79+/-0.50)E-14
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
The derived temporal decay index is 2.5 +/- 0.4, which is consistent with the value reported by the Swift-XRT team (Kennea et al., GCN 38098).
Launched on January 9, 2024, EP is a space X-ray observatory to monitor the soft X-ray sky with X-ray follow-up capability (Yuan et al. 2022, Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics).
GCN Circular 38123
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GRB 241105A: SVOM/GRM observation
Date
2024-11-08T06:34:21Z (2 years ago)
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SVOM/GRM team: Chao Zheng, Chen-Wei Wang, Shi-Jie Zheng, Yong-Wei Dong, Jiang-Tao Liu, Jian-Chao Sun, Yue Huang, Jiang He, Min Gao, Hao-Xuan Guo, Lu Li, Yong-Ye Li, Hong-Wei Liu, Xin Liu, Hao-Li Shi, Li-Ming Song, You-Li Tuo, Wen-Long Zhang, Wen-Jun Tan, Jin-Peng Zhang, Yue Wang, Hao-Xi Wang, Jin Wang, Jin-Zhou Wang, Ping Wang, Rui-Jie Wang, Yu-Xi Wang, Bo-Bing Wu, Shao-Lin Xiong, Jian-Ying Ye, Yi-Tao Yin, Wen-Hui Yu, Fan Zhang, Li Zhang, Peng Zhang, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Yan-Qiu Zhang, Yan-Ting Zhang, Shu-Min Zhao, Xiao-Yun Zhao (IHEP), Maria-Grazia Bernardini (LUPM/INAF-OAB), Laurent Bouchet (IRAP), David Corre (CEA), Tais Maiolino (LUPM), Frédéric Piron (LUPM), Stéphane Schanne (CEA), Jingwei Wang (IAP), JeanLuc Attéia (IRAP)
SVOM JSWG: Jian-Yan Wei (NAOC), Bertrand Cordier (CEA), Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP), Stéphane Basa (LAM), Arnaud Claret (CEA), Zi-Gao Dai (USTC), Frédéric Daigne (IAP), Jin-Song Deng (NAOC), Olivier Godet (IRAP), 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), Shao-Lin Xiong (IHEP), Bing Zhang (UNLV)
Report on behalf of the SVOM team:
During the commissioning phase, the SVOM/GRM was triggered in-flight by GRB 241105A (SVOM trigger reference: sb24110502) at 2024-11-05T16:06:05.00 UT (T0), which was also observed by Fermi/GBM (Fermi GBM Team, GCN 38085), Konus-Wind (D. Frederiks et al., GCN 38103), and Swift/BAT (J. DeLaunay et al., GCN 38108).
The real-time alert data and light curves of SVOM/GRM were downlinked to the ground through the VHF system with low latency. With the event-by-event data downloaded through the X-band ground station, the GRM light curve shows that this burst consists of a short single pulse with a duration of about 2 s and a weaker extended emission with a duration of about 40 s. The significance of extended emission observed by GRD03 is about 3.6 sigma from T0+2 to T0+42 s.
The initial pulse spectrum from T0-0.5 to T0+1.7 s is best fit by a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -0.93 +/- 0.54 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 214 +/- 59 keV. The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (1.05 +/- 0.19)E-06 erg/cm^2.
The extended emission spectrum from T0+1.7 to T0+42 s is best fit by a power law function. The power law index is -1.63 +/- 0.18. The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (1.76 +/- 0.31)E-07 erg/cm^2.
The time-integrate spectrum from T0-0.5 to T0+42 s is best fit by a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -1.23 +/- 0.52 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 455 +/- 335 keV. The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (2.13 +/- 0.48)E-07 erg/cm^2. According to the redshift z=2.702 (Izzo et al., GCN 38097), we estimate the burst isotropic equivalent radiated energy, parameterized as Eiso, is (1.76 +/- 0.76)E+53 erg (1-10000 keV).
The burst position (from Swift/BAT) was outside the SVOM/ECLAIRs field of view at trigger time.
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. GRM is developed by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of CAS.
The SVOM point of contact for this burst is: Chao Zheng (zhengchao97@ihep.ac.cn)
GCN Circular 38121
Subject
GRB 241105a: PRIME near-infrared upper limits
Date
2024-11-07T21:40:20Z (2 years ago)
From
Joe Durbak at UMD <gcn.joedurbak@gmail.com>
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J. Durbak (UMD), O. Guiffreda (UMD), S. Atri (U Rome), A. S. Kutyrev (NASA/GSFC), E. Troja (U Rome), S. B. Cenko (NASA/GSFC)
Following the Fermi GBM detection (GCN 38085), we observed the transient field in J-filter with PRIME ~31 hours after Fermi GBM detection.
At the counterpart positions reported by GOTO (GCN 38088), Swift XRT (GCN 38098), and Swift UVOT(GCN 38110), we detect no uncatalogued sources in J-band. Using nearby VISTA Hemispherical Survey (VHS) stars for preliminary calibration we derive a limiting magnitude of <21.2 AB, not corrected for Galactic extinction.
PRIME is a 1.8m telescope with 1.56 square degree FOV (0.5 arcsec/pixel) located in Sutherland, South Africa at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) (Kutyrev et al. 2023, Yama et al. 2023, Durbak et al. 2024).
We thank the Osaka University observers at PRIME and the staff at SAAO for their support with these observations.
GCN Circular 38119
Subject
GRB 241105A: ePESSTO+ NTT optical afterglow detection
Date
2024-11-07T21:17:07Z (2 years ago)
From
Paolo D'Avanzo at INAF - OAB <paolo.davanzo@inaf.it>
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K. Tsalapatas, Y. Hu, P. J. Pessi (Stockholm), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), D. B. Malesani (DAWN/NBI and Radboud univ.), A. Gangopadhyay, A. Singh, A. Gkini, J. Sollerman, S. Barmentloo (Stockholm), T. Kravtsov (Turku), G. Pignata (UTA), J. Anderson (ESO), T.-W. Chen (NCU), M. Gromadzki (Warsaw), C. Inserra (Cardiff), E. Kankare (Turku), T. Müller Bravo (Trinity), O. Yaron (Weizmann), D. Young (QUB), S. Benetti (INAF), E. Zimmerman (Weizmann), Asaf Horowicz (Weizmann), J. Tonry, L. Denneau, H. Weiland, A. Lawrence, R. Siverd (IfA, University of Hawaii), N. Erasmus, W. Koorts (South African Astronomical Observatory), A. Jordan, V. Suc (UAI, Obstech), S. J. Smartt (Oxford/QUB), K. W. Smith, S. Srivastav, D. R. Young, M. Fulton, M. McCollum, T. Moore, M. Nicholl, J. Weston (QUB), L. Shingles (GSI/QUB), L. Rhodes (Oxford), J. Sommer (LMU/QUB), A. Rest (STScI), C. Stubbs (Harvard) report:
We observed the field of GRB 241105A (Fermi GBM team, GCN 38085; DeLaunay et al., GCN 38091; Frederiks et al., GCN 38103) under the advanced Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (ePESSTO+; see Smartt et al. 2015, A&A, 579, 40; http://www.pessto.org). The observations were performed with the ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT) at La Silla equipped with the EFOSC2 instrument in imaging mode, starting on 2024 Nov 06 at 03:21:27 UT (i.e. about 1.47 days after the burst) using the r and z gunn filters.
The optical afterglow (Julakanti et al., GCN 38088) is clearly detected in both bands. From preliminary photometry, we estimate a magnitude of r = 22.4 +/- 0.1 (AB; calibrated against the ATLAS REFCAT2 catalogue; Tonry et al. 2018). This result is in agreement with the report from Dichiara et al. (GCN 38111).
GCN Circular 38113
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GRB241105A: Gemini-South Optical Afterglow Detection
Date
2024-11-07T15:40:50Z (2 years ago)
From
Jillian Rastinejad at Northwestern Univ. <jillianrastinejad2024@u.northwestern.edu>
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J. Rastinejad, C. Kilpatrick, W. Fong (Northwestern) report on behalf of a larger collaboration:
We observed the location of the X-ray (Kennea et al. GCN 38098) and optical (Julakanti et al., GCN 38088) counterparts of GRB 241105A (Fermi GBM Team GCN 38085, DeLaunay et al. GCN 38091, Frederiks et al. GCN 38103) with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) mounted on Gemini-South under Program GS-2024B-Q-108 (PI: Fong). We obtained 8x120-sec imaging in r-band at a mid-time of 2024-11-07 01:44:56.1 UT (1.4 days post-burst), at a median airmass of 1.6.
We clearly detect the optical afterglow. Calibrated to SkyMapper, we measure a preliminary brightness of r~21.7 AB mag at seeing < 1.1'', not corrected for Galactic extinction nor emission from the underlying galaxy (Izzo et al. 38097). Compared to the measurement of r=19.2 +/- 0.2 AB mag at 0.4 days reported by Hu et al. (GCN 38106), our observation indicates a rapid rate of decay (Fopt ~ t^-1.8). This decline rate is potentially contaminated by the host galaxy, and the true decline rate may be steeper. While the inferred magnitude differs by ~0.8 mag from the R-band measurement of Dichiara et al. (GCN 38111), we deduce similar decline rates in slightly different filters.
Further observations are planned to monitor the variability of the source. We thank Jennifer Andrews and additional Gemini staff for the rapid planning and execution of these observations.
GCN Circular 38111
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GRB 241105A: VLT/FORS2 optical afterglow rapid fading
Date
2024-11-07T14:59:37Z (2 years ago)
From
Rosa L. Becerra at Tor Vergata, Roma <rosa.becerra@roma2.infn.it>
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Simone Dichiara (PSU), Eleonora Troja (U Rome), Rosa L. Becerra (U Rome), Yu-Han Yang (U Rome) report:
We observed the field of GRB 241105A (Fermi GBM team, GCN 38085; DeLaunay et al., GCN 38091; Konus-Wind team, GCN 38103) with the FORS2 imager on the ESO VLT UT1 (Antu). Observations began 1.5 days after the trigger and were carried out in the R and z filters through good seeing conditions (0.8").
We detect the optical counterpart (Julakanti et al., GCN 38088) at a preliminary magnitude
R ~22.5 AB mag calibrated using nearby stars in the Legacy Survey DR10 (Dey et al. 2019). Compared with earlier optical detections (Julakanti et al., GCN 38088; SVOM/VT team, GCN 38099; Izzo et al. GCN 38097; Hu et al., GCN 38106), our observations show a rapid decline of the afterglow brightness, consistent with a power-law of slope ~-1.7.
Further observations are planned.
We thank the staff at the VLT, especially Maria Jose Rain, for the rapid execution of these observations.
GCN Circular 38110
Subject
GRB 241105A: Swift/UVOT Detection
Date
2024-11-07T13:18:53Z (2 years ago)
From
Mike Siegel at PSU/Swift MOC <mhs18@psu.edu>
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M. H. Siegel (PSU) reports on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 241105A
38.4 ks after the Fermi trigger (GCN Circ. 38085). A faint fading source
is detected consistent with the XRT position (Kennea et al., GCN Circ. 38098)
and the reported optical counterparts (Julakanti et al., GCN Circ. 38088, Izzo,
GCN. Circ. 38097, Wei et al., GCN Circ. 38099, Hu et al., GCN Circ 38106).
The preliminary UVOT position is:
RA (J2000) = 04:24:58.96 = 66.24568 (deg.)
Dec (J2000) = -49:45:09.8 = -49.75271 (deg.)
with an estimated uncertainty of 0.42 arc sec. (radius, 90% confidence).
Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system
(Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the initial exposures are:
Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag
white 38363 67383 4551 21.46+/-0.11
white 90644 106641 4612 >22.76
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.011 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
GCN Circular 38108
Subject
GRB 241105A: Swift/BAT-GUANO refined analysis of short burst with extended emission
Date
2024-11-07T00:52:08Z (2 years ago)
From
Jimmy DeLaunay at Penn State <delauj2@gmail.com>
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James DeLaunay (PSU), Aaron Tohuvavohu (Caltech), Samuele Ronchini (PSU), Gayathri Raman (PSU), Jamie A. Kennea (PSU), Tyler Parsotan (NASA GSFC) report:
Swift/BAT GUANO detected and localized GRB 241105A (GCN 38091). GRB 241105A was also detected by Fermi/GBM (GCN 38104), GOTO (GCN 38088), Swift-XRT (GCN 38098), SVOM/VT (GCN 38099