GRB200306C

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Summary IPN Swift GCN 27326 GCN 27328 GCN 27329 GCN 27332 GCN 27333 GCN 27334 GCN 27335 GCN 27337 GCN 27338 GCN 27339 GCN 27341 GCN 27342 GCN 27345 GCN 27348 GCN 27352 GCN 27353 GCN 27354

Summary table
Variable Value Source
T0 22:50:39 UTC GCN_circulars,Swift Det
ra 198.5561° Swift
decl 11.2699° Swift
pos_error 5.57e-05° Swift
T90 53.5 s Swift
T90_start 22:50:39 UTC Swift
fluence 2.80e-06 erg/cm² Swift
T100 53.5 s
GBM_located False
mjd 58914.951840277776 GCN_circulars,Swift Det
IPN table
GRB_name GRB200306C
ra 198.5833°
decl 11.2500°
pos_error 5.00e-02°
Swift table
GRB_name GRB200306C
t_trigger 22:50:39 UTC
ra 198.5561°
decl 11.2699°
pos_error 5.57e-05°
T90 53.5 s
fluence 2.80e-06 erg/cm²
GCN 27326 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27326
Detection_method Swift Det
t_trigger 22:50:39 UTC
ra 198.5820°
decl 11.2550°
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27326 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: Swift detection of a burst with an optical counterpart DATE: 20/03/06 23:02:02 GMT FROM: David Palmer at LANL J.D. Gropp (PSU), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), D. N. Burrows (PSU), J. A. Kennea (PSU), S. Laha (GSFC/UMBC/CRESST), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL), B. Sbarufatti (PSU), M. H. Siegel (PSU) and A. Tohuvavohu (U Toronto) report on behalf of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Team: At 22:50:39 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and located GRB 200306C (trigger=960102). Swift slewed immediately to the burst. The BAT on-board calculated location is RA, Dec 198.582, +11.255 which is RA(J2000) = 13h 14m 20s Dec(J2000) = +11d 15' 18" with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve showed a complex structure with a duration of about 50 sec. The peak count rate was ~1800 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~3 sec after the trigger. The XRT began observing the field at 22:52:35.9 UT, 116.9 seconds after the BAT trigger. Using promptly downlinked data we find a fading, uncatalogued X-ray source located at RA, Dec 198.55562, 11.26981 which is equivalent to: RA(J2000) = 13h 14m 13.35s Dec(J2000) = +11d 16' 11.3" with an uncertainty of 3.5 arcseconds (radius, 90% containment). This location is 107 arcseconds from the BAT onboard position, within the BAT error circle. This position may be improved as more data are received; the latest position is available at https://www.swift.ac.uk/sper. A power-law fit to a spectrum formed from promptly downlinked event data gives a column density in excess of the Galactic value (1.91 x 10^20 cm^-2, Willingale et al. 2013), with an excess column of 2.8 (+2.73/-2.37) x 10^21 cm^-2 (90% confidence). UVOT took a finding chart exposure of 250 seconds with the U filter starting 117 seconds after the BAT trigger. There is a candidate afterglow in the list of sources generated on-board at RA(J2000) = 13:14:13.44 = 198.55602 DEC(J2000) = +11:16:11.5 = 11.26985 with a 90%-confidence error radius of about 1.10 arc sec. This position is 1.4 arc sec. from the center of the XRT error circle. The estimated magnitude is 17.47. No correction has been made for the expected extinction corresponding to E(B-V) of 0.02. Burst Advocate for this burst is J.D. Gropp (jdg44 AT psu.edu). Please contact the BA by email if you require additional information regarding Swift followup of this burst. In extremely urgent cases, after trying the Burst Advocate, you can contact the Swift PI by phone (see Swift TOO web site for information: http://www.swift.psu.edu/)
GCN 27328 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27328
Detection_method Other
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27328 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: FRAM-ORM afterglow detection DATE: 20/03/06 23:48:16 GMT FROM: Martin Jelinek at Astro.Inst-AVCR,Ondrejov Martin Jelinek, Jan Strobl (ASU CAS Ondrejov, CZ), Sergey Karpov, Martin Masek, Petr Janecek, Jakub Jurysek, Jan Ebr, Ronan Cunniffe, Petr Travnicek and Michael Prouza (Institute of Physics, Prague, CZ) report: The 25cm robotic telescope FRAM-ORM at La Palma (Spain) reacted robotically to the alert of GRB200306C (Gropp et al GCNC 27326), obtaining a series of 20 s unfiltered images starting at 22:51:39.3 UT, i.e. 60.3s post trigger. We clearly detect the source reported by (Gropp et al GCN 27326 and Lipunov et al GCN 27325), decaying at a rate of alpha ~ 1.4 +- 0.1. The brightness of the object was R = 14.1 the first image.
GCN 27329 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27329
Detection_method Optical
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27329 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: BOOTES-1 detection of the optical afterglow DATE: 20/03/07 00:04:48 GMT FROM: Alberto J. Castro-Tirado at IAA-CSIC Y.-D. Hu, A. J. Castro-Tirado and E. Fernandez-Garcia (IAA-CSIC), C. Perez del Pulgar, A. Reina, A. Castellon, I. Carrasco, I. Perez-Garcia (UMA), F. Rendon (IAA-CSIC and INTA-CEDEA), on behalf of a larger collaboration, report: The 30cm BOOTES-1 robotic telescope at INTA-CEDEA in Huelva (Spain) automatically responded to the Swift trigger of GRB 200306C (Gropp et al., GCNC 27326). A sequence of 1-s images (clear filter) were obtained starting at 22:52:28 UT (i.e. 109s after the burst). At the UVOT position reported by Swift an optical transient is detected with R = 14.9, in agreement with the MASTER (Lipunov et al. GCNC 27324) and FRAM detections (Jelinek et al. GCNC 27328). A detailed analysis for the sequence of images which were obtained is ongoing. The magnitude is calibrated against the USNO-B1 catalog and is not corrected for Galactic extinction in the direction of the GRB. We thank the staff at INTA-CEDEA for its excellent support.
GCN 27332 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27332
Detection_method Swift-BAT Det
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27332 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: GOTO upper limits DATE: 20/03/07 00:57:36 GMT FROM: Kendall Ackley at Monash University K. Ackley (1); K. Wiersema (2); Y.-L. Mong (1); D. K. Galloway (1); D. Steeghs (2); V.Dhillon (3); P. O'Brien (4); G. Ramsay (5); D. Pollacco (2); E. Thrane (1); S. Poshyachinda (6); R. Kotak (7); L. Nuttall (8); E. Pall\'e (9); K. Ulaczyk (2); J. Lyman (2); R. Cutter (2); A. Levan (2); T. Marsh (2); R. West (2); E. Stanway (2); B. Gompertz (2); T. Killestein (2); A. Casey (1); M. Brown (1); B. Muller (1); M. Dyer (3); J. Mullaney (3); E. Daw (3); S. Littlefair (3); J. Maund (3); L. Makrygianni (3); U. Burhanudin (3); R. Starling (4); R. Eyles (4); S. Tooke (4); S. Aukkaravittayapun (6); U. Sawangwit (6); S. Awiphan (6); D. Mkrtichian (6); P. Irawati (6); S. Mattila (7); T. Heikkil\"a (7); E. Rol (1) ((1) Monash University, (2) Warwick University, (3) University of Sheffield, (4) University of Leicester, (5) Armagh Observatory & Planetarium, (6) National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, (7) University of Turku, (8) University of Portsmouth, (9) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias) report on behalf of the GOTO collaboration: We carried out observations with the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO), in response to GRB 2000306C (Palmer et al. 2020; GCN #27326). We made a series of 9x60 s exposures using our wide L-band filter (400-700 nm) covering the Swift UVOT position (Palmer et al. 2020; GCN #27326), starting at 1.1 hours after the Swift BAT trigger with midtime 23:56:45 UT on 06 March 2020. Using a difference imaging analysis with recent survey observations of the same pointings as reference, we do not identify the detections from MASTER (Lipunov et al. GCN #27324), FRAM (Jelinek et al. GCN #27328), and BOOTES-1 (Castro-Tirado et al. GCN #27329). Our mean 5-sigma detection limit was g=19.1 mag based on PS1 catalogue calibrators. GOTO is operated at the La Palma observing facilities of the University of Warwick on behalf of a consortium including the University of Warwick, Monash University, Armagh Observatory, the University of Leicester, the University of Sheffield, the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT) and the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) (https://goto-observatory.org)
GCN 27333 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27333
Detection_method Swift-UVOT Other
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27333 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: SAO RAS observations of OT DATE: 20/03/07 01:20:14 GMT FROM: Moskvitin Alexander at SAO RAS A. Moskvitin on behalf of the larger GRB follow-up team report. We observed the field of the GRB 200306C (Gropp et al. GCNC #27326) with the 1-m telescope of SAO RAS in BVRc filters. The observations were started in semi-automatic mode since 2 minutes after the trigger. We clearly detected the OT discovered by Swift/UVOT, MASTER-Net (Lipunov et al. GCNC #27324/27325/27327), FRAM-ORM (Jelinek et al. GCNC #27328), BOOTES-1 (Hu et al., GCNC #27329) with the coordinates: R. A. = 13:14:13.44, Decl. = +11:16:11.8 +/- 0".5, Epoch = 2000.0. Preliminary R band photometry of the OT: Tmid-T0, s exp., s Rmag +/- err 151 30 15.29 +/- 0.06 183 30 15.77 +/- 0.03 230 30 15.97 +/- 0.12 276 30 16.14 +/- 0.04 388 60 16.49 +/- 0.05 464 60 16.69 +/- 0.07 541 60 16.99 +/- 0.04 The calibration were done against nearby SDSS stars (Lupton, 2005).
GCN 27334 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27334
Detection_method Optical
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27334 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: Liverpool Telescope observations DATE: 20/03/07 02:09:10 GMT FROM: Luca Izzo at DARK/NBI L. Izzo (DARK/NBI) and D. Perley (LJMU) report: We observed GRB 200303C (Gropp et al. GCN 27326) with the IO:O camera mounted on the 2-m Liverpool Telescope located in La Palma, Spain. Observations started on March 7th at 01:01:49 UT (2.20 hours after the GRB trigger) and we obtained a series of 5x60s images in the griz filters. In our stacked i-band and z-band images we detect the afterglow at the position reported by Swift-UVOT and other telescopes (Lipunov et al. GCNC 27324, GCN 27325; Jelinek et al. GCN 27328; Hu et al., GCN 27329; Moskvitin GCN 27333) and we measure a preliminary magnitude of i(AB) = 20.7 +- 0.1 mag (median time 2.46 hr after the GRB trigger) and z(AB) = 21.0 +- 0.3 mag (median time 2.58 hr after the GRB). [GCN OPS NOTE(07mar20): Per author's request, in the first sentence "200303A" was changed to "200303C". Also per request, the thrid paragraph was removed as it was an accidental inclusion of a previous circular.]
GCN 27335 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27335
Detection_method Optical
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27335 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: OSN 1.5m afterglow detection DATE: 20/03/07 02:51:33 GMT FROM: Alexander Kann at IAA-CSIC D. A. Kann, M. Blazek (both HETH/IAA-CSIC), A. de Ugarte Postigo (HETH/IAA-CSIC, DARK/NBI), C. C. Thoene, J. F. Agui Fernandez (both HETH/IAA-CSIC), and V. Casanova (IAA-CSIC) report: We observed the optical afterglow position of GRB 200306C (Lipunov et al., GCNs #27324, #27325; Gropp et al., GCN #27326; Jelinek et al., GCN #27328; Hu et al., GCN #27329; Moskvitin, GCN #27333; Izzo & Perley, GCN #27334) with the 1.5m telescope of the Sierra Nevada Observatory, Granada, Spain, in the V filter. Observations began 46 minutes after the GRB, and we obtained 18 x 30 s images under moonlight. We also obtained four Rc images before technical problems shut down the telescope, but stray light from a nearby bright star precludes a detection. We detect the afterglow in a stacked image centered 0.03985 days after the GRB, at V = 19.38 +/- 0.14 mag (Vega mag). The afterglow magnitude was measured against six comparison stars from the GSC 2.3 catalog.
GCN 27337 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27337
Detection_method Optical
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27337 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: LCO Optical Upper Limits DATE: 20/03/07 07:28:15 GMT FROM: Robert Strausbaugh at U. of the Virgin Islands R. Strausbaugh (U. of the Virgin Islands), A. Cucchiara (U. of the Virgin Islands/College of Marin) report on behalf of a larger collaboration: We observed Swift GRB 200306C (Gropp et al., GCN 27326) with the LCO 1-m Sinistro instrument at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory, Chile site, on March 7, from 4:50 to 5:21 UT (corresponding to 6.0 to 6.5 hours from the GRB trigger time) with the Bessel I and R filters. We performed a series of 5x120s exposures in I and R. We do not detect any sources in the individual frames (nor in stacked images) at the location of previous optical afterglow detections (Lipunov et al., GCN 27325, Jelinek et al., GCN 27328, Castro-Tirado et al., GCN 27329, Moskvitin et al., GCN 27333, Izzo et al., GCN 27334, Kann et al., 27335). Using the USNO-B.1 catalog as reference, we obtain the following 3-sigma upper limits: R > 20.56 I > 19.65 R.S. is funded by NSF AST grant #1831682
GCN 27338 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27338
Detection_method Optical
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27338 SUBJECT: GRB200306C: First Hour Liverpool Telescope Observations DATE: 20/03/07 09:56:23 GMT FROM: Iain Steele at Liverpool/JMU I.A.Steele (LJMU) reports on behalf of a larger collaboration: The automated system of the Liverpool 2.0m telescope, La Palma, followed up GRB200306C starting at 23:01:37 UT (i.e. approximately 11 minutes post trigger) in the r’, i’,and z’ band filters for a period of 1 hour. We clearly detect the afterglow reported in GCN numbers 27326, 27328, 27329, 27334 with a r’ band magnitude of 17.3 in our first frame calibrated with respect to a nearby APASS source. The afterglow continues to fade over the course of the hour. ________________________________ Important Notice: the information in this email and any attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to an intended recipient, you should delete it from your system immediately without disclosing its contents elsewhere and advise the sender by returning the email or by telephoning a number contained in the body of the email. No responsibility is accepted for loss or damage arising from viruses or changes made to this message after it was sent. The views contained in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Liverpool John Moores University.
GCN 27339 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27339
Detection_method Optical
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27339 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: KCT upper limit of the optical afterglow DATE: 20/03/07 14:23:18 GMT FROM: Gu Lim at Seoul National U Gu Lim (SNU), Myungshin Im (SNU), Changbom Park (KIAS), Gregory S. H. Paek (SNU) on behalf of GECKO We carried out a follow-up observation of the afterglow of GRB 200306C (Gropp et al GCNC 27326) using the 14-inch KCT (KIAS Chamnun Telescope) at DeepSkyChile, Chile. A series of 30x120 s exposures on SDSS i-band were obtained, starting at 04:37:13.849 UT on 06 March 2020. We do not detect any sources on the stacked image at the previously reported position of afterglow detections (Lipunov et al. GCN #27324, GCN #27325, Jelinek et al. GCN #27328, Castro-Tirado et al. GCN #27329, Moskvitin et al., GCN 27333, Izzo et al., GCN 27334, Kann et al., 27335). After the flux calibration using SDSS dr12 photometric catalog, 5-sigma detection limit is obtained as i > 18.40 AB magnitude. KIAS Chamnun Telescope (KCT) is a 0.36m telescope of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), recently installed at the DeepSkyChile site in Chile. "Chamnun" is a Korean word for "True Eye", meaning the eye that can see the truth. Gravitational-wave EM Counterpart Korean Observatory (GECKO) is a network of 10+ 0.5m to 1m class telescopes over the world. ᐧ
GCN 27341 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27341
Detection_method Optical
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27341 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: VIRT optical upper limits DATE: 20/03/07 17:53:18 GMT FROM: Priyadarshini Gokuldass at U. of the Virgin Islands P. Gokuldass (UVI), D. Morris (UVI), N. Orange (OrangeWave Innovative Science, LLC), A. Cucchiara (College of Marin), R. Strausbaugh (UVI) report: We observed the field of GRB200306C (Gropp et al., GCN 27326) with the 0.5m Virgin Island Robotic Telescope (VIRT) at the University of the Virgin Islands' Etelman Observatory on 03-07-2020 starting at 01:52:04 UT (T+3.0 hrs). We performed a series of exposures in R filter. The weather conditions were clear during the hours of observation and the zenith angle at the start of observations was 68 degrees and rising. We observed the Swift XRT position with a 20'x20' field of view. We find no new source at the position of previous optical detections (Lipunov et al., GCN 27325, Jelinek et al., GCN 27328, Castro-Tirado et al., GCN 27329, Moskvitin et al., GCN 27333, Izzo et al., GCN 27334, Kann et al., 27335) and report upper limits as follows: T_mid ||Exposure ||Filter ||Limit T+3.3 hrs ||1025s ||R ||18.0 T+4.0 hrs ||3360s ||R ||19.0 The limits are estimated from comparison to nearby USNO B1 stars and are not corrected for Galactic extinction. The VIRT is still in the commissioning phase. This work is supported by NASA-MUREP-MIRO grant NNX15AP95A, NSF EiR AST Award 1901296, and NSF HBCU-UP AST Award 1831682. This message can be cited.
GCN 27342 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27342
Detection_method Swift-XRT Det
ra 198.5559°
decl 11.2695°
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27342 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: Enhanced Swift-XRT position DATE: 20/03/07 18:07:44 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester J.P. Osborne, A.P. Beardmore, P.A. Evans and M.R. Goad (U. Leicester) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team. Using 1935 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 2 UVOT images for GRB 200306C, we find an astrometrically corrected X-ray position (using the XRT-UVOT alignment and matching UVOT field sources to the USNO-B1 catalogue): RA, Dec = 198.55588, +11.26953 which is equivalent to: RA (J2000): 13h 14m 13.41s Dec (J2000): +11d 16' 10.3" with an uncertainty of 2.2 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence). This position may be improved as more data are received. The latest position can be viewed at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_positions. Position enhancement is described by Goad et al. (2007, A&A, 476, 1401) and Evans et al. (2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177). This circular was automatically generated, and is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
GCN 27345 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27345
Detection_method Swift-XRT Other
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27345 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: Swift-XRT refined Analysis DATE: 20/03/07 23:02:03 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester K.L. Page (U. Leicester), M. Capalbi (INAF-IASFPA), M. Perri (ASDC), V. D'Elia (ASDC), D.N. Burrows (PSU), J. D. Gropp (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) and J.D. Gropp report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: We have analysed 6.0 ks of XRT data for GRB 200306C (Gropp et al. GCN Circ. 27326), from 101 s to 18.9 ks after the BAT trigger. The data comprise 36 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode (the first 9 s were taken while Swift was slewing) with the remainder in Photon Counting (PC) mode. The enhanced XRT position for this burst was given by Osborne et al. (GCN Circ. 27342). The late-time light curve (from T0+5.5 ks) can be modelled with a power-law decay with a decay index of alpha=2.2 (+0.4, -0.3). A spectrum formed from the PC mode data can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.56 (+0.11, -0.10). The best-fitting absorption column is 4.1 (+3.0, -2.2) x 10^20 cm^-2, consistent with the Galactic value of 1.9 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Willingale et al. 2013). The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor deduced from this spectrum is 4.2 x 10^-11 (4.4 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1. A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus: Total column: 4.1 (+3.0, -2.2) x 10^20 cm^-2 Galactic foreground: 1.9 x 10^20 cm^-2 Excess significance: <1.6 sigma Photon index: 1.56 (+0.11, -0.10) If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of 2.2, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 4.4 x 10^-4 count s^-1, corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 1.8 x 10^-14 (1.9 x 10^-14) erg cm^-2 s^-1. The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00960102. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
GCN 27348 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27348
Detection_method Other
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27348 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: Calar Alto 2.2m upper limit DATE: 20/03/08 07:43:45 GMT FROM: Alexander Kann at IAA-CSIC D. A. Kann (HETH/IAA-CSIC), A. de Ugarte Postigo (HETH/IAA-CSIC, DARK/NBI), M. Blazek, C. C. Thoene, J. F. Agui Fernandez (all HETH/IAA-CSIC), R. Pedro Hedrosa, and E. Gallego (both CAHA) report: We observed the field of the afterglow of GRB 200306C (Lipunov et al., GCNs #27324, #27325; Gropp et al., GCN #27326; Jelinek et al., GCN #27328; Hu et al., GCN #27329; Moskvitin, GCN #27333; Izzo & Perley, GCN #27334; Kann et al., GCN #27335; Steele et al., GCN #27338) with the 2.2m telescope of Calar Alto equipped with CAFOS. We obtained 4 x 720 s images in the Rc band under adverse conditions (moonlight, passing clouds, bright star still there). Our stacked image centred at mean epoch 1.25519 d after the GRB shows no detection to a 3-sigma upper limit of Rc > 23.0 mag (AB). The magnitude limit was obtained versus SDSS stars in the field.
GCN 27352 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27352
Detection_method Swift-UVOT Det
ra 198.5561°
decl 11.2699°
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27352 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: Swift/UVOT Detection DATE: 20/03/09 06:03:35 GMT FROM: Sam LaPorte at PSU GRB 200306C: Swift/UVOT Detection J. D. Gropp (PSU) reports on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team: The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 200306C 118 s after the BAT trigger (Gropp et al., GCN Circ. 27326). A fading source consistent with the positions reported by FRAM-ORM (Jelinek et al., GCN Circ. 27238), BOOTES-1 (Hu et al., GCN Circ. 27329), SAO RAS (Moskvitin et al., GCN Circ. 27333) Liverpool Telescope (Izzo et al., GCN Circ 27334) and OSN (Kann et al., GCN Circ. 27335) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures. The preliminary UVOT position is: RA (J2000) = 13:14:13.46 = 198.55607 (deg.) Dec (J2000) = +11:16:11.7 = 11.26992 (deg.) with an estimated uncertainty of 0.43 arc sec. (radius, 90% confidence). Preliminary detections using the UVOT photometric system (Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the early exposures are: Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag u_fc 141 390 245 16.90+-0.05 u 899 1049 147 18.39+-0.16 The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.02 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).
GCN 27353 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27353
Detection_method Swift-BAT Det
ra 198.5770°
decl 11.2630°
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27353 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: Swift-BAT refined analysis DATE: 20/03/09 06:03:42 GMT FROM: Amy Lien at GSFC M. Stamatikos (OSU), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. R. Cummings (CPI), J.D. Gropp (PSU), H. A. Krimm (NSF), S. Laha (GSFC/UMBC), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (AGU), T. N. Ukwatta (LANL) (i.e. the Swift-BAT team): Using the data set from T-240 to T+1065 sec from the recent telemetry downlink, we report further analysis of BAT GRB 200306C (trigger #960102) (Gropp et al., GCN Circ. 27326). The BAT ground-calculated position is RA, Dec = 198.577, 11.263 deg which is RA(J2000) = 13h 14m 18.6s Dec(J2000) = +11d 15' 47.7" with an uncertainty of 1.3 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment). The partial coding was 42%. The mask-weighted light curve shows several overlapping pulses that start at ~T-12 s and end at ~T+50 s. T90 (15-350 keV) is 53.5 +- 12.8 sec (estimated error including systematics). The time-averaged spectrum from T-12.33 to T+50.70 sec is best fit by a simple power-law model. The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is 0.83 +- 0.12. The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 2.8 +- 0.2 x 10^-6 erg/cm2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+3.45 sec in the 15-150 keV band is 1.3 +- 0.3 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/960102/BA/
GCN 27354 table
GRB_name GRB200306C
GCN_number 27354
Detection_method Optical
Circular_text TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27354 SUBJECT: GRB 200306C: ALMA 3mm upper limit DATE: 20/03/09 14:01:36 GMT FROM: Tanmoy Laskar at U of Bath T. Laskar (University of Bath), S. Bhandari (CSIRO), K. D. Alexander (Northwestern), E. Berger (Harvard), W. Fong (Northwestern), R. Margutti (Northwestern), C. G. Mundell (University of Bath), and P. Schady (University of Bath) report on behalf of a larger collaboration: "We observed GRB 200306C (Gropp et al., GCN 27326) with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) at 97.5 GHz over two epochs: (i) on 2020 March 08 beginning at 05:08:54 UT (at a mean time of 0.99 d after the burst), and (ii) on 2020 March 09 beginning at 05:46:00 UT (at a mean time of 2.01 d after the burst). No mm-band emission is detected at the optical position (Gropp et al., GCN 27326; Moskvitin, GCN 27333) in either epoch. Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits are ~ 100 uJy and ~ 120 uJy from the individual observations and ~ 80 uJy from stacking the two epochs. We thank the JAO staff, AoD, P2G, and the entire ALMA team for their help with scheduling and executing these observations."