//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 11699 SUBJECT: GRB 110212A: Swift detection of a burst DATE: 11/02/12 01:18:44 GMT FROM: David Palmer at LANL V. D'Elia (ASDC), W. H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC), A. P. Beardmore (U Leicester), N. Gehrels (NASA/GSFC), J. M. Gelbord (PSU), S. T. Holland (CRESST/USRA/GSFC), J. A. Kennea (PSU), H. A. Krimm (CRESST/GSFC/USRA), N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL), C. B. Markwardt (NASA/GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL), M. H. Siegel (PSU) and G. Stratta (ASDC) report on behalf of the Swift Team: At 01:09:08 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and located GRB 110212A (trigger=445321). Swift did not slew immediately to the burst because of an observing constraint. The BAT on-board calculated location is RA, Dec 69.053, +43.702 which is RA(J2000) = 04h 36m 13s Dec(J2000) = +43d 42' 09" with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve showed a multiply-peaked structure with a duration of about 10 sec. The peak count rate was ~3000 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~0 sec after the trigger. Due to a Moon observing constraint, Swift cannot slew to the BAT position until 19:02 UT on 2011 February 13. There will thus be no XRT or UVOT data for this trigger before this time. Burst Advocate for this burst is V. D'Elia (delia AT asdc.asi.it). 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: 11700 SUBJECT: GRB 110212A: ROTSE-III Optical Limits DATE: 11/02/12 01:51:42 GMT FROM: Weikang Zheng at U.of Michigan W. Zheng (U Mich), report on behalf of the ROTSE collaboration: ROTSE-IIIb, located at McDonald Observatory, Texas, responded to GRB 110212A (Swift trigger 445321; D'Elia et al., GCN 11699), producing images beginning 31.0 s after the GCN notice time. An automated response took the first image at 01:09:39 UT, 31.0 s after the burst. Unfortunately the sky is still under twilight conditions, the first useful image stared 725s after the burst. Comparison to the DSS (second epoch) reveals no new sources within the 3-sigma Swift/BAT error circle for co-added images with a sets of 10 calibrated relative to USNO A2.0 (R). We set the following specific limits. start UT end UT t_exp(s) mlim t_start-tGRB(s) Coadd? -------------------------------------------------------------------- 01:21:13.5 01:25:54.7 281 16.8 725.5 Y 01:26:04.0 01:30:45.5 281 17.1 1016.0 Y 01:30:54.3 01:35:35.5 281 17.2 1306.3 Y 01:35:44.3 01:40:25.0 280 17.4 1596.3 Y //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 11701 SUBJECT: GRB110212A: BOOTES-2/TELMA optical limits DATE: 11/02/12 03:25:14 GMT FROM: Martin Jelinek at Inst.Astrophys.Andalucia,Granada Martin Jelinek and Javier Gorosabel (IAA-CSIC Granada) on behalf of BOOTES collaboration report: " The 60 cm robotic telescope TELMA at the BOOTES-2 station located in Malaga (Spain) reacted automatically to GRB110212A (GCNC 11699). The first image was obtained 32.1s after the GRB trigger time (and 7.3s after the reception of the trigger). A large number of 3-s R-band images was obtained. No new source was found on 40 individual images (R>~15) taken between 32 and 253s after the GRB, nor at their 120s (40x3s) combination (R>~16.5). " //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 11702 SUBJECT: GRB 110212A: SARA-N Optical Limits DATE: 11/02/12 04:19:52 GMT FROM: Adria C. Updike at Clemson U Adria C. Updike (NASA/GSFC), Dieter H. Hartmann (Clemson University), Brian Murphy, and Andrew N. Darragh (Butler University) report: We observed the field of GRB 110212A (D'Elia et al., GCN 11699) with the SARA-North 0.9m telescope at KPNO beginning 58 minutes after the trigger under good conditions. We obtained 24 minutes of stacked exposures in the R band and 6 minutes of stacked exposures in the I band. We detect no new sources within nearly 2 sigma of the BAT error circle down to limiting magnitudes of R > 20 and I > 19 relative to the USNO B1.0 catalog. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 11703 SUBJECT: GRB 110212A, Swift-BAT refined analysis DATE: 11/02/12 14:17:53 GMT FROM: Hans Krimm at NASA-GSFC T. N. Ukwatta (MSU),S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), W. H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC), J. R. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC), V. D'Elia (ASDC), E. E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC), H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (GSFC/UMBC), G. Sato (ISAS), M. Stamatikos (OSU), J. Tueller (GSFC), (i.e. the Swift-BAT team): Using the data set from T-239 to T+630 sec from the recent telemetry downlink, we report further analysis of BAT GRB 110212A (trigger #445321) (D'Elia, et al., GCN Circ. 11699). The BAT ground-calculated position is RA, Dec = 69.025, 43.716 deg which is RA(J2000) = 04h 36m 06.0s Dec(J2000) = +43d 42' 56.2" with an uncertainty of 1.4 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment). The partial coding was 71%. The mask-weighted light curve shows two peaks, the first from T-0.6 s to T+1.6 s and the second from T+1.8 to T+2.6 s. T90 (15-350 keV) is 3.3 +- 0.5 sec (estimated error including systematics). The time-averaged spectrum from T-1.8 to T+2.6 sec is best fit by a power law with an exponential cutoff. This fit gives a photon index 0.78 +- 0.85, and Epeak of 44.6 +- 10.2 keV (chi squared 54.29 for 56 d.o.f.). For this model the total fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 2.4 +- 0.3 x 10-7 erg/cm2 and the 1-sec peak flux measured from T+0.26 sec in the 15-150 keV band is 1.5 +- 0.2 ph/cm2/sec. A fit to a simple power law gives a photon index of 1.93 +- 0.15 (chi squared 61.44 for 57 d.o.f.). 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/445321/BA/ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 11704 SUBJECT: GRB 110212A: GRT Optical Observation DATE: 11/02/13 04:13:57 GMT FROM: Takanori Sakamoto at NASA/GSFC T. Sakamoto (UMBC/GSFC), D. Donato (UMD/GSFC), N. Gehrels (GSFC), T. Okajima (GSFC), Y. Urata (NCU), C.A. Wallace (FGCU) We observed the field of GRB 110212A detected by Swift (trigger #445321; D'Elia et al., GCN Circ. 11699) with the 14-inch Goddard Robotic Telescope (GRT) located at the Goddard Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory (http://cddisa.gsfc.nasa.gov/ggao/). A total 209 images of 5 sec (200 images) and 30 sec (9 images) exposures were taken in the R filter starting from February 12 01:10:20 (UT), about 71 seconds after the trigger (37 seconds after the BAT position notice), and stopped on February 12 01:45:53 (UT). We do not detect the optical afterglow both in the individual images and the stacked image inside the BAT error circle (Ukwatta et al., GCN #11703). The estimated five sigma upper limit of the combined image (total exposure of 1270 sec) is ~18.9 mag using the USNO-B1 catalog. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 11711 SUBJECT: GRB110212A: MITSuME Okayama optical upper limits DATE: 11/02/13 08:42:44 GMT FROM: Daisuke Kuroda at OAO/NAOJ D. Kuroda, K. Yanagisawa, Y. Shimizu, H. Toda (OAO, NAOJ), S. Nagayama (NAOJ), M. Yoshida (Hiroshima), K. Ohta (Kyoto) and N. Kawai(Tokyo Tech) report on behalf of the MITSuME collaboration: We observed the field of GRB 110201A (D'Elia et al., GCN 11699) with the optical three color (g', Rc and Ic) CCD camera attached to the MITSuME 50cm telescope of Okayama Astrophysical Observatory. The observation started on 2011-02-12 11:11:56 UT (~10 hours after the burst). We did not find any new point source within the BAT refined error circle (Ukwatta et al., GCNC 11703) in all the three bands. Three sigma upper limits of the OT are listed below. We used GSC2.3 catalog for flux calibration. T0+[day] MID-UT T-EXP[sec] g' Rc Ic ------------------------------------------------------ 0.46043 12:12:08 5880.0 >20.0 >19.7 >19.0 ------------------------------------------------------ T0+ : Elapsed time after the burst [day] T-EXP: Total Exposure time [sec] //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 11729 SUBJECT: GRB 110212A: Swift XRT and UVOT observations DATE: 11/02/14 19:59:12 GMT FROM: Valerio D'Elia at ASDC V. D'Elia, G. Stratta (ASDC), N.P.M. Kuin (MSSL-UCL), report on behalf of the Swift team: Swift XRT and UVOT instruments began observing the field of the BAT burst GRB 110212A (D'Elia et al., GCN circ 11699) on 2011-02-13 at 23:21, that is, 46 h (166.3 ks) after the burst trigger due to a Moon constraint. The observations ended on 2011-02-14 at 02:47. No candidate afterglow is detected in the BAT error circle. UVOT observed in the uvm2 filter, with a total exposure time of 5885 s. No new source is found in or near the BAT error circle from comparison to the DSS image. The 5-sigma upper limit for a source is uvm2 > 20.3 magnitudes. XRT observations have a total exposure time of 5967 s, and yield a three sigma upper limit of 1.4e-3 counts/second for any new source in the BAT error circle. This circular is an official product of the Swift Team. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.