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GCN Circulars

GCN Circulars are rapid astronomical bulletins submitted by and distributed to community members worldwide. They are used to share discoveries, observations, quantitative near-term predictions, requests for follow-up observations, or future observing plans related to high-energy, multi-messenger, and variable or transient astrophysical events. See the documentation for help with subscribing to or submitting Circulars.

Search for Circulars by submitter, subject, or body text (e.g. 'Fermi GRB').
To navigate to a specific circular, enter the associated Circular ID (e.g. 'gcn123', 'Circular 123', or '123').
Advanced Search

To narrow the search results, use advanced search syntax. This allows for specifying which circular field to search (submitter, subject, and/or body). For additional information, refer to the advanced search documentation.

Lucene Examples (click to copy):

subject:"Swift"
body:"GRB"
submitter:"Judith Racusin"

8 results found.

  1. GRB 250127A: EP-FXT second observation epoch and confirmation of the x-ray afterglow fading
  2. GRB 250127A: CrAO and Terskol optical upper limits
  3. GRB 250127A: Swift-XRT observations
  4. GRB 250127A: EP-FXT afterglow detection
  5. GRB 250127A: SVOM/VT upper limit
  6. GRB 250127A: Swift ToO observations
  7. GRB 250127A: LCO optical upper limit
  8. GRB 250127A: SVOM detection of a long burst

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