TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  30840
SUBJECT: GRB 210909A: Detection by GRBAlpha
DATE:    21/09/15 10:35:12 GMT
FROM:    Masanori Ohno at Hiroshima U  <ohno@astro.hiroshima-u.ac.jp>

J. Ripa (Masaryk U.), M. Ohno (Eotvos U./Konkoly Observatory/Hiroshima U.),
 H. Takahashi (Hiroshima U.), A. Pal, L. Meszaros, B. Csak (Konkoly
Observatory), N. Werner, M. Topinka, F. Munz, F. Hroch (Masaryk U.), T.
Urbanec, M. Kasal,  A. Povalac (Brno U. of Technology), J. Hudec, J. Kapus,
M. Frajt (Spacemanic s.r.o), R. Laszlo, M. Koleda (Needronix s.r.o), M.
Smelko, P. Hanak, P. Lipovsky (Technical U. of Kosice), G. Galgoczi (Wigner
Research Center/Eotvos U.), Yuusuke Uchida, Helen Poon, H. Matake, N.
Uchida (Hiroshima U.), T. Bozoki (Eotvos U.), G. Dalya (Eotvos U.), T.
Enoto (Kyoto U.), Zs. Frei (Eotvos U.), G. Friss (Eotvos U.), Y. Fukazawa,
K. Hirose (Hiroshima U.), S. Hisadomi (Nagoya U.), Y. Ichinohe (Rikkyo U.),
K. Kapas (Eotvos U.), L. L. Kiss (Konkoly Observatory),  T. Mizuno
(Hiroshima U.), K. Nakazawa (Nagoya U.), H. Odaka (Univ of Tokyo), J.
Takatsy (Eotvos U.), K. Torigoe (Hiroshima U.) -- the GRBAlpha
collaboration.

The short duration GRB 210909A (Fermi-GBM detection; GCN Circ.  30786) was
detected by the GRBAlpha 1U CubeSat (Pal et al. Proc. SPIE 2020).

The light curve shows a short spike structure within the 4 s time bin. The
detection had significance of the SNR = 8.8.

The light curve obtained by GRBAlpha is available here:
https://grbalpha.konkoly.hu/static/share/GRB210909A_GCN.pdf

GRBAlpha is a demonstration mission for a future CubeSats constellation
(Werner et al. Proc. SPIE 2018). The detector of GRBAlpha consists of a 75
x 75 x 5 mm3 CsI scintillator read out by a SiPM array, covering the energy
range from ~50 keV to ~1000 keV. GRBAlpha was launched on 2021 March 22
from Baikonur. After its commissioning phase, the scientific observations
are now under way. To increase the duty cycle and the downlink rate, the
upgrade of the on-board data acquisition software stack is in progress. The
ground segment is also supported by the radio amateur community and it
takes advantage of the SatNOGS network for increased data downlink volume.