TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  33303
SUBJECT: GRB 230207B: Detection by GRBAlpha
DATE:    23/02/08 14:52:24 GMT
FROM:    Marianna Dafcikova at Masaryk University  <500025@mail.muni.cz>

M. Dafcikova, J. Ripa (Masaryk U.), A. Pal (Konkoly Observatory), N. Werner
(Masaryk U.), M. Ohno, H. Takahashi (Hiroshima U.), L. Meszaros, B. Csak
(Konkoly Observatory), N. Husarikova, F. Munz , M. Topinka, M. Kolar, J.-P.
Breuer, 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.), Y. Uchida, H.
Poon, H. Matake (Hiroshima U.), N. Uchida (ISAS/JAXA), 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.), N. Kogiso, M. Yoneyama (Osaka Metropolitan U.), M. Moritaki (U.
Tokyo), T. Kano (U. Michigan) -- the GRBAlpha collaboration.

The long-duration GRB 230207B (AGILE/MCAL detection: GCN Circ. 33296;
Swift/BAT-GUANO detection: GCN Circ. 33298; CALET/GCBM detection: trigger
no. 1359779945; INTEGRAL/SPI-ACS detection: trigger no. 10190) was observed
by the GRBAlpha 1U CubeSat (Pal et al. Proc. SPIE 2020).

The detection was confirmed at the peak time 2023-02-07 04:40:48 UTC. The
T90 duration measured by GRBAlpha is 10 s and the overall significance
during T90 reaches 25 sigma.

The light curve obtained by GRBAlpha is available here:

https://grbalpha.konkoly.hu/static/share/GRB230207B_GCN.pdf

All GRBAlpha detections are listed at:
https://monoceros.physics.muni.cz/hea/GRBAlpha/

GRBAlpha, launched on 2021 March 22, is a demonstration mission for a
future CubeSat 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. 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.