//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19171 SUBJECT: GRB 160313A: Swift detection of a burst DATE: 16/03/13 02:52:40 GMT FROM: Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), D. N. Burrows (PSU), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), A. Maselli (INAF-IASFPA), L. M. McCauley (PSU), D. M. Palmer (LANL), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB/PSU), M. H. Siegel (PSU) and T. N. Ukwatta (LANL) report on behalf of the Swift Team: At 02:37:15 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and located GRB 160313A (trigger=678929). Swift slewed immediately to the burst. The BAT on-board calculated location is RA, Dec 183.788, +57.293 which is RA(J2000) = 12h 15m 09s Dec(J2000) = +57d 17' 34" with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve shows several peaks with a total duration of about 40 sec. The peak count rate was ~1000 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~30 sec after the trigger. The XRT began observing the field at 02:39:48.3 UT, 152.5 seconds after the BAT trigger. Using promptly downlinked data we find an uncatalogued X-ray source with an enhanced position: RA, Dec 183.7969, 57.2840 which is equivalent to: RA(J2000) = 12h 15m 11.24s Dec(J2000) = +57d 17' 02.3" with an uncertainty of 2.2 arcseconds (radius, 90% containment). This location is 36 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 http://www.swift.ac.uk/sper. No spectrum from the promptly downlinked event data is yet available to determine the column density. UVOT took a finding chart exposure of 150 seconds with the White filter starting 198 seconds after the BAT trigger. No credible afterglow candidate has been found in the initial data products. The 2.7'x2.7' sub-image covers 100% of the XRT error circle. The typical 3-sigma upper limit has been about 19.6 mag. 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 0.01. Burst Advocate for this burst is A. D'Ai (antonino.dai AT ifc.inaf.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: 19172 SUBJECT: GRB 160313A: SAO RAS observations DATE: 16/03/13 03:24:53 GMT FROM: Moskvitin Alexander at SAO RAS A. Moskvitin (SAO RAS, Russia) report on behalf of the larger team. The field of GRB 160313A (D'Ai et al., GCNC #19171) was observed with the SAO RAS Zeiss-1000 telescope. The observations started during the morning twilight, since 10 minutes after the trigger. In combined image of 4 x 60 seconds in the Rc band we did not detect any object within the XRT error circle down to the limiting magnitude R_lim = 18.2. This estimation based on the nearby USNO-B1 stars. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19173 SUBJECT: GRB 160313A: RATIR Optical and NIR Observations DATE: 16/03/13 05:53:49 GMT FROM: Antonino Cucchiara at NASA/GSFC Antonino Cucchiara (GSFC/STScI), Nat Butler (ASU), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC), William H. Lee (UNAM), Michael G. Richer (UNAM), Ori Fox (STScI), J. Xavier Prochaska (UCSC), Josh Bloom (UCB), Eleonora Troja (GSFC), Owen Littlejohns (ASU), Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), José A. de Diego (UNAM), Leonid Georgiev (UNAM), Jesús González (UNAM), Carlos Román-Zúñiga (UNAM), Neil Gehrels (GSFC), Harvey Moseley (GSFC), John Capone (UMD), V. Zach Golkhou (ASU), and Vicki Toy (UMD) report: We observed the field of GRB 160313A (D'Ai, et al., GCN 19171) with the Reionization and Transients Infrared Camera (RATIR; www.ratir.org) on the 1.5m Harold Johnson Telescope at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on Sierra San Pedro Mártir from 2016/03 13.14 to 2016/03 13.22 UTC (0.63 to 2.67 hours after the BAT trigger), obtaining a total of 1.42 hours exposure in the r and i bands and 0.52 hours exposure in the Z, Y, J, and H bands. For a source within the Swift-XRT error circle, in comparison with the SDSS DR9 and 2MASS catalogs, we obtain the following upper limits (3-sigma): r > 23.49 i > 23.21 Z > 22.08 Y > 21.48 J > 20.11 H > 20.60 These magnitudes are in the AB system and are not corrected for Galactic extinction in the direction of the GRB. Further observations are planned. We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional in San Pedro Mártir. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19174 SUBJECT: GRB 160313A: Enhanced Swift-XRT position DATE: 16/03/13 08:12:04 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester M.R. Goad, J.P. Osborne, A.P. Beardmore and P.A. Evans (U. Leicester) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team. Using 722 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 2 UVOT images for GRB 160313A, 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 = 183.79649, +57.28347 which is equivalent to: RA (J2000): 12h 15m 11.16s Dec (J2000): +57d 17' 00.5" with an uncertainty of 1.9 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: 19175 SUBJECT: GRB 160313A: TAROT Calern observatory optical observations DATE: 16/03/13 11:47:05 GMT FROM: Alain Klotz at IRAP-CNRS-OMP Klotz A., Turpin D., Atteia J.L. (CNRS-OMP-IRAP), Boer, M., Laugier, R. (CNRS-ARTEMIS), Gendre B. (UVI - Etelman Obs.) report: We imaged the field of GRB 160313A detected by SWIFT (trigger 678929) with the TAROT robotic telescope (D=25cm) located at the Calern observatory, France. The observations started 122s after the GRB trigger (20s after the notice). The elevation of the field decreased from 64 degrees above horizon and weather conditions were good but images are slightly defocused. The first image is trailed with a duration of 60.0s (see the description in Klotz et al., 2006, A&A 451, L39). We do not detect any OT in the XRT error box published by Goad et al. (GCNC 19174). Next images are recorded with diurnal tracking. t1(s) t2(s) Rmag_lim Site 122 182 15.8 TAROT Calern 198 228 16.9 TAROT Calern 239 269 16.8 TAROT Calern 280 393 18.7 TAROT Calern 405 1226 18.7 TAROT Calern 1237 3172 19.2 TAROT Calern Magnitudes were estimated with nearby USNO-B1 stars and are not corrected for galactic dust extinction. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19176 SUBJECT: GRB 160313A: Swift-XRT refined Analysis DATE: 16/03/13 12:56:17 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester J.P. Osborne (U. Leicester), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), V. D'Elia (ASDC), A. Maselli (INAF-IASFPA), L.M. McCauley (PSU), J.A. Kennea (PSU), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB/PSU), C. Pagani (U. Leicester) and A. D'Ai report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: We have analysed 7.1 ks of XRT data for GRB 160313A (D'Ai et al. GCN Circ. 19171), from 138 s to 22.9 ks after the BAT trigger. The data comprise 39 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode (the first 7 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 Goad et al. (GCN Circ. 19174). The light curve can be modelled with a power-law decay with a decay index of alpha=3.23 (+0.18, -0.16). A spectrum formed from the PC mode data can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.9 (+/-0.4). The best-fitting absorption column is 1.7 (+1.4, -1.1) x 10^21 cm^-2, in excess of the Galactic value of 1.3 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 3.8 x 10^-11 (4.8 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1. A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus: Total column: 1.7 (+1.4, -1.1) x 10^21 cm^-2 Galactic foreground: 1.3 x 10^20 cm^-2 Excess significance: 2.3 sigma Photon index: 1.9 (+/-0.4) If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of 3.23, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 1.1 x 10^-8 count s^-1, corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 4.0 x 10^-19 (5.0 x 10^-19) erg cm^-2 s^-1. The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00678929. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19177 SUBJECT: GRB 160313A: LT observations DATE: 16/03/13 13:28:15 GMT FROM: Cristiano Guidorzi at Ferrara U,Italy D. Kopac (U. Ljubljana), C. Guidorzi (U. Ferrara), S. Kobayashi (LJMU), A. Gomboc (U. Nova Gorica), C.G. Mundell (U. Bath), on behalf of a large collaboration report: The 2-m Liverpool Telescope began observing Swift GRB 160313A (D'Ai et al., GCN 19171) on March 13, 02:40:45 UT (3.5 minutes after the burst trigger). Inside the XRT error circle (Goad et al., GCN 19174) we find no source down to r'> 21.0 mag in a 6x10s exposure (at 36.5 min, mid time), as calibrated against nearby SDSS stars, in agreement with previous reports (Moskvitin et al. GCN 19172; Cucchiara et al. GCN 19173; Klotz et al. GCN 19175). //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19178 SUBJECT: GRB 160313A: MASTER-Net optical observations DATE: 16/03/13 15:54:59 GMT FROM: Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov, V.Kornilov, D.Kuvshinov, N.Tyurina, P.Balanutsa, A.Kuznetsov, V.V.Chazov Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University A. Tlatov, A.V. Parhomenko, D. Dormidontov, V.Senik Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory V.Yurkov, Yu.Sergienko, D.Varda, E.Sinyakov Blagoveschensk Educational State University, Blagoveschensk K.Ivanov, S.Yazev, N.M.Budnev, O.Gres, O.Chuvalaev, V.A.Poleshchuk Irkutsk State University V.Krushinski, I.Zalozhnih, A. Popov Ural Federal University, Kourovka D.Buckley, S. Potter, A.Kniazev, M.Kotze South African Astronomical Observatory Hugo Levato and Carlos Saffe Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio (ICATE) Claudio Mallamaci, Carlos Lopez and Federico Podest Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (OAFA) R. Rebolo, M. Serra, N. Lodieu, G. Israelian, L. Suarez-Andres The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias MASTER II robotic telescope (MASTER-Net: http://observ.pereplet.ru) located in Kislovodsk was pointed to the GRB160313A 21 sec after notice time and 129 sec after trigger time at 2016-03-13 02:39:24 UT in two polarizations. On our first (30s exposure) and following coadd images we haven`t found optical transient within SWIFT error-box (D'Ai et al GCN 19171). The observations took during the morning twilight. We have a 5 good images before they become overexposed. The 5-sigma upper limit has been about 16.5 on first single (30s exposure) image and 17.2 on coadd (300 s exposure) image. The message may be cited. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19179 SUBJECT: GRB 160313A: Chante-Perdrix Observatory optical observations DATE: 16/03/13 19:21:44 GMT FROM: Alain Klotz at IRAP-CNRS-OMP Kugel F., Rinner C. (Observatoire Chante-Perdrix, Dauban), and Klotz A. (CNRS-OMP-IRAP) report: F. Kugel imaged the field of GRB 160313A detected by SWIFT (trigger 678929) with the D=40cm F/D=3 telescope located at the Observatoire Chante-Perdrix, Dauban, France (IAU station A77). The CCD camera is ARTEMIS ATIK-460ex, no optical filter is used. The observations started 17.4 min after the GRB trigger. The first image is 60 second exposure. No optical transcient is detected in the XRT error box published by Goad et al. (GCNC 19174). Next images are co-added: t1(min) t2(min) Rmag_lim 17.4 18.4 19.5 17.4 42.4 20.0 Magnitudes were estimated with nearby USNO-B1 stars and are not corrected for galactic dust extinction. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19181 SUBJECT: GRB 160313A, Swift-BAT refined analysis DATE: 16/03/13 21:59:08 GMT FROM: Amy Lien at GSFC S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. R. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), N. Gehrels (GSFC), H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (AGU), M. Stamatikos (OSU), T. N. Ukwatta (LANL) (i.e. the Swift-BAT team): Using the data set from T-691 to T+962 sec from the recent telemetry downlink, we report further analysis of BAT GRB 160313A (trigger #678929) (A. D'Ai et al., GCN Circ. 19171). The BAT ground-calculated position is RA, Dec = 183.821, 57.278 deg which is RA(J2000) = 12h 15m 17.0s Dec(J2000) = +57d 16' 40.1" with an uncertainty of 2.0 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment). The partial coding was 80%. The mask-weighted light curve shows a complex structure with several overlapping pulses. The structure starts at ~ T-5 s and ends at ~ T+45 s. T90 (15-350 keV) is 42.6 +- 6.4 sec (estimated error including systematics). The time-averaged spectrum from T-5.6 to T+44.7 sec is best fit by a simple power-law model. The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is 1.36 +- 0.23. The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 5.8 +- 0.8 x 10^-7 erg/cm2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+24.79 sec in the 15-150 keV band is 0.4 +- 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/678929/BA/ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19194 SUBJECT: GRB 160313A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits DATE: 16/03/15 16:18:15 GMT FROM: Marissa McCaule at PSU L. M. McCauley (PSU) and A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA) reports on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team: The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 160313A 198 s after the BAT trigger (D'Ai et al., GCN Circ. 19171). No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Goad et al. GCN Circ. 19174) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures. Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system (Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the first finding chart (FC) exposure and subsequent exposures are: Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag white_FC 198 920 418 >20.77 white 198 5756 664 >21.01 v 355 6167 451 >19.78 b 454 5552 254 >20.24 u 430 6588 260 >19.44 uvw1 405 6577 451 >19.93 uvm2 4737 6372 393 >19.17 uvw2 4328 5962 393 >19.99 The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.01 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998). //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19201 SUBJECT: GRB 160313A: Mondy optical upper limit DATE: 16/03/16 20:22:15 GMT FROM: Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow E. Mazaeva (IKI), A. Volnova (IKI), E. Klunko (ISTP), I. Korobtsev (ISTP), A. Pozanenko (IKI) report on behalf of larger GRB follow-up collaboration: We observed the field of the GRB 160313A (D'Ai et al., GCN 19171) with AZT-33IK telescope of Sayan observatory (Mondy) starting on March, 13 (UT) 16:39:40. We do not detect any source within enhanced Swift-XRT position (Goad et al., GCN 19174). Preliminary photometry of the combined image is following Date UT start t-T0 Filter Exp. UpperLimit (3 sigma) (mid, days) (s) 2016-03-13 16:39:40 0.60586 R 30*120 23.6 Photometry is based on nearby SDSS-DR9 stars, Lupton transformations into R. The nearest source to the enhanced XRT position is 5.5 arcsec East, in coordinates (J2000) 12:15:11.86 +57:17:00.0 with uncertainty of 0.5 arcsec in both coordinates. The source magnitude is R=23.3+/-0.2. The source is not presented in SDSS-DR9 but barely visible in SDSS r-image. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19450 SUBJECT: GRB 160313A: 15 GHz upper limits from AMI DATE: 16/05/23 18:50:48 GMT FROM: Kunal Mooley at Oxford U K. P. Mooley, T. D. Staley, R. P. Fender (Oxford), G. E. Anderson (Curtin), C. Rumsey, D. Titterington, S. Carey, J. Hickish, Y. C. Perrott, N. Razavi-Ghods, P. Scott (Cambridge), K. Grainge, A. Scaife (Manchester) The AMI Large Array robotically triggered on the Swift alert for GRB 160313A (D'Ai et al., GCN 19171) as part of the 4pisky program, and subsequent follow up observations were obtained up to 10 days post-burst. Our observations at 15 GHz on 2016 Mar 13.15, Mar 13.97, Mar 16.00, Mar 20.11, and Mar 23.02 (UT) do not reveal any radio source at the XRT location (Goad et al., GCN 19174), with 3sigma upper limits of 130 uJy, 60 uJy, 100 uJy, 170 uJy, and 70 uJy respectively. We thank the AMI staff for scheduling these observations. The AMI-GRB database is a log of all GRB follow up observations with the AMI, and is available at http://4pisky.org/ami-grb/.