//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 10979 SUBJECT: GRB 100725A: Swift detection of a burst DATE: 10/07/25 07:23:01 GMT FROM: David Palmer at LANL C. B. Markwardt (CRESST/GSFC/UMD), J. M. Gelbord (PSU), V. Mangano (INAF-IASFPA), K. L. Page (U Leicester), D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. A. Pritchard (PSU) and B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB/IASFPA) report on behalf of the Swift Team: At 07:12:52 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and located GRB 100725A (trigger=429954). Swift slewed immediately to the burst. The BAT on-board calculated location is RA, Dec 166.515, -26.688 which is RA(J2000) = 11h 06m 04s Dec(J2000) = -26d 41' 14" with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve showed a multi-peaked structure with a duration of at least 40 sec. The peak count rate was ~3000 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~0 sec after the trigger. The XRT began observing the field at 07:14:09.1 UT, 76.7 seconds after the BAT trigger. XRT found a bright, uncatalogued X-ray source located at RA, Dec 166.4839, -26.6716 which is equivalent to: RA(J2000) = 11h 05m 56.13s Dec(J2000) = -26d 40' 17.7" with an uncertainty of 5.4 arcseconds (radius, 90% containment). This location is 115 arcseconds from the BAT onboard position, within the BAT error circle. No event data are yet available to determine the column density using X-ray spectroscopy. The initial flux in the 2.5 s image was 1.32e-09 erg cm^-2 s^-1 (0.2-10 keV). UVOT took a finding chart exposure of nominal 150 seconds with the White filter starting 84 seconds after the BAT trigger. No credible afterglow candidate has been found in the initial data products. Data from the 2.7'x2.7' sub-image are not available at this time. The 8'x8' region for the list of sources generated on-board covers 100% of the XRT error circle. The list of sources is typically complete to about 18 mag. No correction has been made for the expected extinction corresponding to E(B-V) of 0.05. Burst Advocate for this burst is C. B. Markwardt (Craig.Markwardt AT nasa.gov). 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/too.html.) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 10980 SUBJECT: GRB 100725A: Prompt enhanced Swift-XRT position DATE: 10/07/25 08:02:01 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: Using promptly downlinked XRT event data for GRB 100725A, we find an enhanced XRT position of the afterglow: RA, Dec: 166.4815, -26.6703 which is equivalent to: RA (J2000) = 11 05 55.57 Dec (J2000) = -26 40 12.9 with an uncertainty of 2.2 arc sec (radius, 90% confidence). Analysis of the promptly available data is online at http://www.swift.ac.uk/sper/429954. Position enhancement is is described by Goad et al. (2007, A&A, 476, 1401) and Evans et al. (2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177). This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 10982 SUBJECT: GRB100725A Faulkes Telescope South observations DATE: 10/07/25 10:01:24 GMT FROM: David Bersier at Liverpool John Moores U D. Bersier, C. Guidorzi, Z. Cano, S. Kobayashi report on behalf of a larger collaboration: We observed the location of GRB100725A (GCN 10979) with the Faulkes Telescope South, starting at the beginning of the night (1.7 hour after trigger). In a 5 minutes R-band exposure, we do not detect any source not present on the DSS inside the enhanced XRT error circle (GCN 10980). Any source at m=20.0 would have been clearly detected. The same holds for a 6x5minutes exposure at a magnitude m=21.3. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 10985 SUBJECT: GRB 100725A: Enhanced Swift-XRT position DATE: 10/07/25 13:00:55 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester P.A. Evans, M.R. Goad, J.P. Osborne and A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team. Using 1441 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 1 UVOT images for GRB 100725A, 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 = 166.48153, -26.67025 which is equivalent to: RA (J2000): 11h 05m 55.57s Dec (J2000): -26d 40' 12.9" with an uncertainty of 1.8 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. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 10987 SUBJECT: GRB 100725A: Swift XRT refined analysis DATE: 10/07/25 15:02:01 GMT FROM: Boris Sbarufatti at INAF-OAB/IASFPA B. Sbarufatti (INAF OAB/INAF IASF-PA) , V. Mangano (INAF/IASF_PA) and C. B. Markwardt (CRESST/GSFC/UMD) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: We have analysed 4.3 ks of XRT data for GRB 100725A (Markwardt et al. GCN Circ. 10979), from 82 s to 11.0 ks after the BAT trigger. The data comprise 177 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode with the remainder in Photon Counting (PC) mode. The light curve can be modelled with an initial power-law decay with an index of alpha=1.1 (+/-0.1), followed by a break at T+270 s to an alpha of 6.5 (+/-0.5). After a second break at T+590 s the decay follows an index of alpha=0.9 (+0.3 -0.4). The spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.18 (+/-0.08). The best-fitting absorption column is 1.2 (+/-0.3) x 10^21 cm^-2, in excess of the Galactic value of 4.6 x 10^20 cm^-2 (Kalberla et al. 2005). The spectrum formed from the PC mode data can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.20 (+/-0.09). The best-fitting absorption column is 8.9 (+10.0 -0.8) x 10^20 cm^-2, marginally in excess of the Galactic value. The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor is 6.2 x 10^-11 (6.7 x 10^-11) ergcm^-2 count^-1. If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of 0.9, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 2.4 x 10^-4 count s^-1, corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 1.4 x 10^-14 (1.6 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/00429954. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 10988 SUBJECT: GRB 100725A: Swift-BAT refined analysis DATE: 10/07/25 22:55:30 GMT FROM: Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC D. M. Palmer (LANL), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), W. H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC), J. R. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC), N. Gehrels (GSFC), H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD), T. Sakamoto (GSFC/UMBC), M. Stamatikos (GSFC/ORAU), J. Tueller (GSFC), T. N. Ukwatta (GWU) (i.e. the Swift-BAT team): Using the data set from T-239 to T+903 sec from recent telemetry downlinks, we report further analysis of BAT GRB 100725A (trigger #429954) (Markwardt, et al., GCN Circ. 10979). The BAT ground-calculated position is RA, Dec = 166.468, -26.667 deg, which is RA(J2000) = 11h 05m 52.2s Dec(J2000) = -26d 39' 59.9" with an uncertainty of 1.2 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment). The partial coding was 82%. The mask-weighted light curve shows many overlapping peaks starting at ~T-3 sec, with the highest peak at ~T+9 sec, and ending at ~T+200 sec. T90 (15-350 keV) is 141 +- 27 sec (estimated error including systematics). The time-averaged spectrum from T-4.8 to T+172.0 sec is best fit by a simple power-law model. The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is 1.23 +- 0.12. The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 2.0 +- 0.1 x 10^-6 erg/cm2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+8.58 sec in the 15-150 keV band is 0.7 +- 0.1 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/429954/BA/ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 10989 SUBJECT: GRB 100725A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits DATE: 10/07/25 23:00:31 GMT FROM: Tyler Pritchard at PSU GRB 100725A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits T. A. Pritchard (PSU) and C. B. Markwardt (CRESST/GSFC/UMD) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team: The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 100725A 85 s after the BAT trigger (Markwardt et al., GCN Circ. 10979). No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Evans et al., GCN Circ. 10985) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures. Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system (Poole et al. 2008, MNRAS, 383, 627) for the first finding chart (FC) exposure and subsequent exposures are: Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag white_FC 85 234 147 >20.7 u_FC 297 547 246 >20.3 white 85 11646 1486 >21.8 v 626 13269 1202 >20.2 b 552 7488 440 >20.6 u 297 7353 736 >20.5 w1 675 7148 510 >20.4 m2 651 6942 510 >20.3 w2 602 12552 1396 >21.2 The values quoted above are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.05 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998). //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 10991 SUBJECT: GRB 100725A: GROND upper limits DATE: 10/07/26 02:05:22 GMT FROM: Felipe Olivares Estay at MPE F. Olivares E. (MPE Garching), S. Klose (Tautenburg), and J. Greiner (MPE Garching) report on behalf of the GROND team: GROND (Greiner et al. 2008, PASP 120, 405), the 7-channel imager mounted at the 2.2m ESO/MPI telescope on La Silla, started follow-up observations of GRB 100725A (Markwardt et al. 2010, GCN 10979) on July 25 at 23:05 UT (about 16 hrs after the trigger). With a total integration time of 24.4 min in the optical and 20 min in the nIR, we do not detect any source within the 1.8-arcsec XRT error circle (Evans et al. 2010, GCN 10985) down to the following upper limits (AB system): g' > 22.8 r' > 23.3 i' > 23.1 z' > 22.9 J  > 21.7 H  > 21.1 K  > 20.4, The given limits are calibrated againt GROND zeropoints and 2MASS field stars and are not corrected for the Galactic foreground extinction corresponding to a reddening of E(B-V)= 0.052 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).