GRB 210610B
GCN Circular 30988
Subject
GRB 210610B: Sintesz-Newton/CrAO optical observations
Date
2021-10-25T12:07:05Z (4 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow  <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
N. Pankov (HSE), S. Nazarov (CrAO), A. Pozanenko (IKI), S. Belkin (IKI, 
HSE)  report on behalf of IKI GRB FuN:
We observed  the GRB 210610B (Page  et al., GCN 30170) with 
Sintesz-Newton 350mm f/5 telescope of CrAO observatory. Observation 
started on 2021-06-10 (UT) 22:07:10, and continued on   2021-06-11 (UT) 
20:22:38,  2021-06-12 (UT) 20:39:03, and 2021-06-13 (UT) 19:38:28. The 
series consists of images with an exposure of 300 s in a Clear filter.
The optical afterglow  first reported by UVOT team (Page  et al., GCN 
30170) is clearly detected in each epoch.
Preliminary photometry of the stacked images is following
Date       UT start   t-T0    Filter Exp.     OT    err   UL(3)
                      (mid, days)       (s)
2021-06-10 22:07:10   0.10293  Clear 5*300    17.20 0.03  20.5
2021-06-10 n/d        0.12658  Clear 5*300    17.28 0.08  21.1
2021-06-10 n/d        0.14409  Clear 5*300    17.28 0.06  21.1
2021-06-10 n/d        0.16159  Clear 5*300    17.29 0.06  21.1
2021-06-11 20:22:38   1.02165  Clear 8*300    19.58 0.10  21.2
2021-06-11 20:50:32   1.04103  Clear 6*300    19.50 0.09  21.2
2021-06-11 21:33:21   1.07077  Clear 17*300   19.69 0.09  21.5
2021-06-12 20:39:03   2.03479  Clear 14*300   20.57 0.19  21.5
2021-06-13 19:38:28   3.02571  Clear 20*300   21.26 0.17  21.8
The photometry is based on nearby USNO-B1.0 (R2) stars
USNO_B10-1043-00282648
USNO_B10-1043-00282621
GCN Circular 30614
Subject
GRB 210610B: Assy optical observations
Date
2021-08-08T05:33:17Z (4 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow  <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
V. Kim (FAI, Pulkovo Observatory), A. Pozanenko (IKI), M. Krugov (FAI), 
  N. Pankov (HSE, IKI),  S. Belkin (IKI) report on behalf of GRB IKI FuN:
We observed the field of  GRB 210610B (Lien et al., GCN 30600) with 
AZT-20 telescope of Assy-Turgen observatory starting on 2021-08-07 (UT) 
20:45:22.
We clearly detect the optical afterglow (Lien et al., GCN 30600; Hu et 
al., GCN 30602; Lipunov et al., GCN 30607).
Preliminary photometry of the optical afterglow in a stacked image is 
following
Date       UT start  t-T0       Exp.    Filter  OT    Err.  UL(3sigma)
                    (mid, days)  (s)
2021-08-07 20:45:22  0.47601    75*60   r'      21.28  0.05   23.6
The photometry is based on nearby PS1 stars.
GCN Circular 30360
Subject
GRB 210610B: JCMT SCUBA-2 sub-mm observations
Date
2021-07-03T08:56:12Z (4 years ago)
From
Ian Smith at Rice U  <ian.smith.astronomy@gmail.com>
I.A. Smith (Rice U.), D.A. Perley (LJMU), and N.R. Tanvir 
(U. of Leicester) report:
We observed the Swift UVOT location of GRB 210610B (Page 
et al., GCN Circ. 30170) using the SCUBA-2 sub-millimeter 
continuum camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope.  
Observations totaling 3.1 hours were obtained on UT 2021-06-11, 
2021-06-12, and 2021-06-13 in good weather conditions each day.
No counterpart was detected in the individual or combined maps.
Combining all the data, the RMS background noise was 0.94 mJy/beam 
at 850 microns and 5.7 mJy/beam at 450 microns; the mid-point of 
the run was 1.61 days after the burst trigger.  
We thank Patrice Smith, Alexis-Ann Acohido, Harriet Parsons,
Mark Rawlings, and the JCMT staff for the prompt support of these 
observations that were taken under project M21AP020.
GCN Circular 30316
Subject
GRB 210610B: T-CAT optical observations
Date
2021-06-25T14:40:15Z (4 years ago)
From
Denis Marchais at Amateur astronomer  <denis.marchais@free.fr>
I observed the field of GRB 210610B (Page et al., GCN #30170) with the
T-CAT telescope 0.4-meter f/4 Newton with a f/3 reducer, IR-cut filter
at 630nm and ZWO ASI533MC camera, located in Cintegabelle, France, on
June 11, 12 and 13.
The camera has a Sony sensor with Bayer filters R,G,B, that fairly 
match the standard Bc, Vc, and r' filters considering the additional
IR-cut filter. Each observation results from stacking 120x 32s exposures.
The GRB OT is clearly detected in the stacked frames at the following
location, matching other observations (e.g. , Fynho et al. GCN #30182,
Osborne et al. GCN #30186) though approaching the detection limit on
third observation, June 13th.
   RA(J2000)  = 16h 15m 40.39s
   Dec(J2000) = +14d 23' 56.3"
The following magnitudes were obtained thanks to PixInsight photometric 
calibration using nearby APASS DR10 stars.
Date        UT start     Filter   Exp. (s)    OT     err
2021-06-11  23:52:21     Bc       120x 32     20.53  +/- 0.05
2021-06-11  23:52:21     Vc       120x 32     20.00  +/- 0.04
2021-06-11  23:52:21     r'       120x 32     19.64  +/- 0.04
2021-06-12  22:48:22     Bc       120x 32     21.79  +/- 0.11
2021-06-12  22:48:22     Vc       120x 32     20.91  +/- 0.07
2021-06-12  22:48:22     r'       120x 32     20.90  +/- 0.10
2021-06-13  22:45:36     Bc       120x 32     21.77  +/- 0.1
2021-06-13  22:45:36     Vc       120x 32     21.42  +/- 0.09
2021-06-13  22:45:36     r'       120x 32     21.76  +/- 0.2
I thank A. Taylor, H.-B. Eggenstein and E. Broens (GCN#30205) for sharing
information through the KNCatcher citizen-science programme initiated by
S. Antier and A. Klotz as part of GRANDMA initiative (GRANDMA Observations
of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's Third Observational Campaign,
Antier et al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04277v2).
GCN Circular 30247
Subject
GRB 210610B: Swift/UVOT Detection
Date
2021-06-17T13:37:18Z (4 years ago)
From
Mike Siegel at PSU/Swift MOC  <mhs18@psu.edu>
M. H. Siegel (PSU), M. Baer (PSU) and K. L. Page (U. Leicester)
report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team:
The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 210610B
92 s after the BAT trigger (Page et al., GCN Circ. 30170). A fading source consistent
with the XRT position (Osborne et al. GCN Circ. 30189) and the previously reported
optical counterpart (Kumar et al., GCN Circ. 30174; Rumyantsev et al. GCN Circ.
30175; Hu et al., GCN Circ. 30177; de Wet et al., GCN Circ. 30180; Romanov, GCN Circ.
30181; Fynbo et al., GCN Circ. 30182; Moskvitin, GCN Circ. 30187; Fu et al., GCN Circ.
30188) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures.
The preliminary UVOT position is:
   RA  (J2000) =  16:15:40.40 = 243.91833 (deg.)
   Dec (J2000) = +14:23:56.9  =  14.39915 (deg.)
with an estimated uncertainty of 0.42 arc sec. (radius, 90% confidence).
Preliminary detections using the UVOT photometric system
(Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the early exposures are: 
Filter         T_start(s)   T_stop(s)      Exp(s)           Mag
white (fc)          92          242          147      13.63+/-1.10
white              584         1355          225      15.24+/-0.02
white           172034       172423          377      20.22+/-0.14
white           286441       292869          328      20.71+/-0.23
white           452008       515231         4066      21.69+/-0.16
v                  634         1405           97      15.63+/-0.05
v                 6631        51903          659      18.26+/-0.09
b                  560         1331           77      15.78+/-0.04
b                81150       133027          865      20.08+/-0.14
u (fc)             304          554          245      13.86+/-0.03
u                  707         1306           58      14.93+/-0.04
u                 4850         5040          186      16.68+/-0.05
u                45786        46567          761      18.06+/-0.05
u               131743       132650          885      20.00+/-0.18
u               365977       418267         3970      21.42+/-0.29
uvw1               683         1282           58      14.51+/-0.06
uvw1              4645         4845          196      16.26+/-0.07
uvw1              7041        45779          989      17.54+/-0.06
uvw1            125974       137480          881      19.53+/-0.20
uvw1            200561       247267         1111      19.95+/-0.24
uvm2              6836         7036          196      16.61+/-0.10
uvw2               783         1034           38      15.05+/-0.09
uvw2             50521        51421          885      18.44+/-0.10
The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction
due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.044 in the direction of the burst
(Schlegel et al. 1998).
GCN Circular 30245
Subject
GRB 210610B: CrAO/ZTSH continued optical observations and light curve
Date
2021-06-16T22:55:29Z (4 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow  <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
N. Pankov (IKI, HSE), A. Pozanenko (IKI), V. Rumyantsev (CrAO), S. 
Belkin (IKI, HSE)  report on behalf of IKI GRB FuN:
We observed the GRB 210610B (Page  et al., GCN 30170) with ZTSH 2.6m
telescope of CrAO observatory on June 10,11  (Rumyantsev et al., GCNs 
30175, 30178; Pankov et al., GCN 30213) and June 12 - 14.  The optical 
afterglow  first reported by UVOT (Page  et al., GCN 30170) is clearly 
detected in each epochs. Some preliminary photometry is following.
Date       UT start   t-T0    Filter Exp.    OT      err   UL(3 sigma)
                      (mid, days)       (s)
2021-06-12 20:54:55   2.0545  R      2*120   20.80   0.10  22.2
2021-06-12 22:41:00   2.1282  R      2*120   20.89   0.10  22.8
2021-06-14 20:40:19   4.0649  R     25*120   21.90   0.11  23.3
The photometry is based on calibrations stars reported in (Pankov et
al., GCN 30213).
Based on our observations in ZTSh on June 10-14, AbAO (Pankov et al., 
GCN 30243) and photometry reported in GCNs we report the light curve of 
the afterglow which can be found in
http://grb.rssi.ru/GRB210610B/GRB210610B_LC.png
After plateau phase lasting up to ~ 0.3 days in R-filter, the LC can be 
approximated by a single power law with index of -1.6.
GCN Circular 30243
Subject
GRB 210610B: AbAO optical observations
Date
2021-06-16T21:40:26Z (4 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow  <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
N. Pankov (HSE, IKI), A. Pozanenko (IKI), R. Ya. Inasaridze (AbAO), S. 
Belkin (IKI), V. R. Ayvazian (AbAO),  G. V. Kapanadze (AbAO) report on 
behalf of IKI GRB FuN:
We observed the GRB 210610B (Page  et al., GCN 30170) with AS-32 
telescope of Abastumani observatory (AbAO) in R-filter on June, 13. The 
optical afterglow  first reported by UVOT (Page  et al., GCN 30170) is 
clearly detected is detected in stacked image. Preliminary photometry of 
the afterglow is following
Date       UT start   t-T0    Filter Exp.    OT     Err.  UL(3sigma)
                       (mid, days)    (s)
2021-06-13 17:06:46   2.88564  R     72*60   21.25  0.14  22.6
The photometry is based on calibrations stars reported in (Pankov et 
al., GCN 30213).
GCN Circular 30238
Subject
GRB 210610B: REM optical/NIR observations of the afterglow
Date
2021-06-15T18:34:17Z (4 years ago)
From
Paolo D'Avanzo at INAF-OAB  <pda.davanzo@gmail.com>
P. D'Avanzo, A. Melandri, S. Covino, D. Fugazza, (INAF-OAB) on behalf of the REM team, report:
We observed the field of GRB 210610B (Page et al., GCN Circ. 30170) with the REM 60cm robotic telescope located at the ESO premise of La Silla (Chile). 
The observations were performed starting  on 2021 June 10 at 23:14:12 UT (i.e. 3.38 hours after the burst) and were carried in the g, r, i, z, J, H and K bands. 
The optical/NIR afterglow (Page et al., GCN Circ. 30170) is detected with the following magnitudes: 
g = 17.48 +/-  0.10 
r = 17.02 +/-  0.06
i = 17.30  +/- 0.10
z = 16.13 +/-  0.15 (*)
(AB; calibrated against the Pan-STARRS catalogue)
(*): image affected by fringes
J = 15.94  +/- 0.23 
(Vega; calibrated against the 2MASS catalogue)
at a mid time of t-t0 = 4.01 hours.
GCN Circular 30231
Subject
GRB 210610B: iTelescope optical afterglow observations
Date
2021-06-13T18:36:43Z (4 years ago)
From
Arto Oksanen at Nyrola Obs., Finland  <oksanen@nyrola.jklsirius.fi>
Markku Nissinen (Taurus Hill Observatory, Varkaus, Finland) and Arto Oksanen 
(Hankasalmi Observatory, Hankasalmi, Finland) report:
We have detected GRB 210610B optical afterglow (Page et al., GCN30170) using 
iTelescope T18 (0.32-m f/8.0 + CCD in AstroCamp at Nerpio, Spain), iTelescope T21 
(0.43-m f/6.8 + f/4.5 focal reducer + CCD in New Mexico Skies at Mayhill, 
New Mexico, USA) and iTelescope T11 (0.50-m f/6.8 + f/4.5 focal reducer + CCD 
in New Mexico Skies at Mayhill, New Mexico, USA). 
We took total of 24 exposures with clear (CR), V and R filters. 
The afterglow was clearly detected with each filter at the position
RA 16:15:40.43 DEC +14:23:57.4.  
The following magnitudes were measured from comparison of a nearby star
(V = 13.97, r'=13.70) from the APASS DR9 catalogue (Henden+, 2016):
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
JD            UTC            Mag    Err   Filter AirMass Telescope Exposure(s)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2459376.36806 June 10 20:50  16.79  0.05  CR     1.28    T18       7x60
2459376.37868 June 10 21:05  17.15  0.10  V      1.24    T18       10x60
2459376.64285 June 11 03:25  17.76  0.02  CR     1.29    T21       2x300
2459376.65108 June 11 03:37  17.95  0.12  R      1.26    T11       5x300
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We used r' reference magnitude for the clear filter and the R filter measurements.
GCN Circular 30230
Subject
GRB 210610B: Further SAO RAS optical observations
Date
2021-06-13T14:58:18Z (4 years ago)
From
Moskvitin Alexander at SAO RAS  <mosk@sao.ru>
A. S. Moskvitin and O. A. Maslennikova (SAO RAS),
report on behalf of the GRB follow-up team.
We observed the field of the GRB 210610B (Page et al., GCN #30170)
with the SAO RAS 1-m telescope Zeiss-1000 + CCD-photometer in BVRc
Johnson-Cousins filters on June 11 and 12.
The GRB OT is clearly detected in the stacked frames
with the following brightness.
Date     UT_start  UT_end    Exp., s  T_mid-T0, d  R mag
June 11  18:54:36--20:03:45  4 x 300  0.98453      19.33 +/- 0.01
June 11  23:14:36--23:49:13  5 x 300  1.15309      19.62 +/- 0.02
June 12  21:28:37--22:47:50  6 x 300  2.09498      20.67 +/- 0.06
The preliminary photometry is based on the USNO-A2.0 star
from GCN #30178 (Rumyantsev et al.) and previous GCN #30187.
Magnitudes were not corrected for MW extinction.
GCN Circular 30228
Subject
GRB 210610B: optical observations from Burke-Gaffney Observatory and Abbey Ridge Observatory
Date
2021-06-13T00:40:00Z (4 years ago)
From
Filipp Dmitrievich Romanov at Amateur astronomer  <filipp.romanov.27.04.1997@gmail.com>
Filipp D. Romanov (Russia) and David J. Lane (Saint Mary's University,
Canada) report:
Filipp Romanov observed optical afterglow of GRB 210610B (Page et al.,
GCN Circ. 30170) remotely using telescopes: 0.61-m f/6.5 Corrected
Dall-Kirkham of Burke-Gaffney Observatory (BGO, Dave Lane is
Observatory Director) and 0.355-m f/6.2 Schmidt-Cassegrain of Abbey
Ridge Observatory (ARO, it is owned by D. Lane) on 2021-06-11.
Two images (with exposures 240 and 300 seconds) were obtained on BGO
with Sloan i' filter; on ARO were obtained two clear (unfiltered)
images (with exposures 840 and 900 seconds) and two images (with
exposures 900 and 840 seconds) with Cousins R filter.
F. Romanov measured following magnitudes of afterglow from comparison
to i' magnitudes of nearby stars from the SDSS Photometric Catalogue
DR12 (Alam et al., 2015) for BGO images and from r' magnitudes for ARO
unfiltered images; from comparison to R magnitudes of nearby stars
from USNO-A2.0 catalogue (Monet et al., 1998) for ARO Rc images:
UTC midtime
of exposure    T_mid-T0, h     Magnitude    Mag. error
-------------------------------------------------------
02:07:55       6.27            17.45  i'    0.12
02:09:15       6.30            17.64  r'    0.03
02:14:20       6.38            17.61  i'    0.08
02:27:12       6.60            17.36  Rc    0.05
02:44:54       6.89            17.78  r'    0.08
03:03:24       7.20            17.50  Rc    0.08
-------------------------------------------------------
Magnitudes were not corrected for Galactic extinction.
Images available here:
http://www.ap.smu.ca/~bgo/sm/id.php?app=0&id=15162
http://aro.abbeyridgeobservatory.ca/sm/id.php?app=0&id=3325
http://www.ap.smu.ca/~bgo/sm/id.php?app=0&id=15163
http://aro.abbeyridgeobservatory.ca/sm/id.php?app=0&id=3326
http://aro.abbeyridgeobservatory.ca/sm/id.php?app=0&id=3327
http://aro.abbeyridgeobservatory.ca/sm/id.php?app=0&id=3328
GCN Circular 30227
Subject
GRB 210610B: Continued KAIT Optical Detection
Date
2021-06-12T20:26:48Z (4 years ago)
From
Weikang Zheng at UC Berkeley  <weikang@berkeley.edu>
WeiKang Zheng and Alexei V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley) report on
behalf of the KAIT GRB team:
We continued observing the optical afterglow of GRB 210610B
(e.g. Page et al., GCN 30170; Zheng & Filippenko, GCN 30204) with
the 0.76-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), located at
Lick Observatory. A total of 30x60s images were obtained in the
clear (roughly R) filter. The optical afterglow was detected in the
coadd image with a mag of 20.0 +/- 0.2 at ~1.44 days after burst,
calibrated to the Pan-STARRS1 catalog.
GCN Circular 30226
Subject
GRB 210610B: optical photometry of afterglow at INASAN/Simeiz
Date
2021-06-12T19:16:14Z (4 years ago)
From
Mansur Ibrahimov at INASAN  <mansur@inasan.ru>
M. Ibrahimov, M. Nalivkin, I. Nikolenko (all from INASAN, 
Moscow, Russia) and O. Pons (IGA, Havana, Cuba) report on 
behalf of a larger team:
Using Zeiss 1m telescope and 4K FLI PL16803 CCD of Simeiz 
Obserbatory (Collective Using Center of INASAN), we 
observed the field of GRB 210610B (Page et al., GCN 
30170). 15x120sec images were acquired through Bessel R 
filter on 2021-06-11/00:03:07 UT (midpoint time, 4.18 
hours after the trigger) with a total exposure time of 
1800 sec.
Optical afterglow (for a list of the most full references 
see e.g. Hosokawa et al., GCN 30220 and Anandagoda et al., 
GCN 30221) was clearly seen in all 15 individual R images.
Photometry of the optical afterglow using stacked R-image 
calibrated against USNO-B1 R1-mag of 2 nearby stars, 
resulted in: R = 17.61 +/- 0.02 mag.
Research was supported by Project No. RFMEFI61319X0093 
(Russian Ministry of Science and High Education, Agreement 
No. 075-15-2019-1716 by 2019 Nov 20) and Project No. 
19-29-11013 (Russian Foundation of Fundamental 
Investigation, Agreement No. 19-29-11013\20 by 2021 Jan 
21).
GCN Circular 30221
Subject
GRB210610B: SARA-KP 0.9m Optical Afterglow Detection
Date
2021-06-12T06:40:48Z (4 years ago)
From
Samalka Anandagoda at Clemson University  <iananda@g.clemson.edu>
S. Anandagoda, K. Pellegrin, and D. Hartmann report:
We observed the field of GRB 210610B detected by Swift BAT (K. L. Page et al., GCN #30170), BALROG (B. Biltzinger et al., GCN #30171), GIT (H. Kumar et al., GCN #30174), V. Rumyantsev et al., V. Lipunov et al., Hu et al., Romanov, Fynbo et al.,Moskvitin et al. and Becerra et al. using the SARA 0.9m optical telescope located at Kitt Peak, AZ, USA, equipped with the Alta-E6-1105 camera.
Observation started at 04:40:42 UTC on 2021-06-12 and ended at 05:43:44 UTC on 2021-06-12. We obtained a series of 150s exposure frames in the Bessell R filter. We detect the optical afterglow of GRB 210610B at the enhanced Swift-XRT position (Osborne et al. GCN 30189).
The estimated magnitude of the GRB afterglow was 20.35 found by stacking 20 images of 150s each in the Bessell R band filter.
T_start-T0 (hrs)   T_end-T0 (hrs)     Start Date (UTC) 	  Filter 	Magnitude (mag)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
32:34		      33:37       	 2021-06-12T04:40:42       R 	   20.35
Photometry is done based on the PanSTARRS catalog.
The Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA) consortium operates three telescopes: the 0.9-m SARA-KP at Kitt Peak in Arizona, and the 0.6-m SARA-CT at Cerro Tololo in Chile, and the 1.0-m SARA-RM (formerly the JKT) telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands. For more information see: Keel et al. (2016): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/129/971/015002 <https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/129/971/015002>
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GCN Circular 30220
Subject
GRB 210610B: MITSuME Akeno optical observation
Date
2021-06-12T06:19:18Z (4 years ago)
From
Ryohei Hosokawa at Tokyo Institute of Technology  <hosokawa@hp.phys.titech.ac.jp>
R. Noto, R. Hosokawa, K. L. Murata, M. Niwano, N. Ito, H. Takamatsu,
Y. Imai, S. Sato, M. Takaku, R. Yamaguchi, Y. Yatsu, and N. Kawai
(TokyoTech) report on behalf of the MITSuME collaboration:
We observed the field of GRB 210610B (Page et al. GCN #30170, Ursi et
al. GCN #30195, Frederiks et al. GCN #30196, Malacaria et al. GCN
#30199) with the optical three color (g', Rc, and Ic) CCD cameras
attached to the MITSuME 50 cm telescope Akeno. The observation with a
series of 60 sec exposures started at 2021-06-11 10:33:20 UT (14.7
hours after Swift BAT trigger). We stacked the images with good
conditions. We detected the afterglow reported previously (Page et al.
GCN #30170, Kumar et al. GCN #30174, Rumyantsev et al. GCN #30175,
Lipunov et al. GCN #30176, Hu et al. GCN #30177, Rumyantsev et al. GCN
#30178, Wet et al. GCN #30180, Romanov et al. GCN #30181, Fynbo et al.
GCN #30182, Moskvitin et al. GCN #30187, Becerra et al. GCN #30190,
Mong et al. GCN #30193, Postigo et al. GCN #30194, Marchini et al. GCN
#30198, Dutta et al. GCN #30201, Zheng et al. GCN #30204, Vreeswijk et
al. GCN #30205, Perley et al. GCN #30206, Pankov et al. GCN #30212,
Pankov et al. GCN #30215, Perley et al. GCN #30216, Laskar et al. GCN
#30217, Alexander et al. GCN #30218)
We measured the magnitudes as follows.
MID-UT T-EXP[sec] measured magnitudes
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2021-06-11 12:51:05 9780 g'=19.3+/-0.2, Rc=18.9+/-0.1, Ic=18.8+/-0.1
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
T-EXP: Total Exposure time
We used PS1 catalog for flux calibration.
The magnitudes are expressed in the AB system.
The images were processed in real-time through the MITSuME GPU
reduction pipeline (Niwano et al. 2021, PASJ, Vol.73, Issue 1, Pages
4-24; https://github.com/MNiwano/Eclaire).
GCN Circular 30218
Subject
GRB 210610B: VLA detection
Date
2021-06-12T00:02:52Z (4 years ago)
From
Kate Alexander at Northwestern U  <kate.alexander@northwestern.edu>
K. D. Alexander (Northwestern), T. Laskar (University of Bath), C.
Kilpatrick (Northwestern), G. Schroeder (Northwestern), W. Fong
(Northwestern), E. Berger (Harvard), R. Margutti (Northwestern), C. G.
Mundell (University of Bath), and P. Schady (University of Bath) report on
behalf of a larger collaboration:
We observed GRB 210610B (Page et al. GCN 30170) at a mean frequency of 14.7
GHz with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA; Program 21A-241)
beginning 2021 June 11.22 UT (9.4 hours after the burst). We detect a radio
source with a preliminary flux density of ~0.25 mJy at:
RA (J2000) = 16:15:40.381
Dec (J2000) = +14:23:56.59
with an uncertainty of 0.07 arcsec in each coordinate. This position is
fully consistent with the optical afterglow (Page et al. GCN 30170; Kumar
et al. GCN 30174) and the refined Swift/XRT afterglow position (Osborne et
al. GCN 30189). Additional follow-up observations are planned.
We thank the VLA staff for rapidly approving and executing these
observations.
GCN Circular 30217
Subject
GRB 210610B: ALMA detection
Date
2021-06-12T00:00:13Z (4 years ago)
From
Tanmoy Laskar at U of Bath  <tanmoylaskar@gmail.com>
T. Laskar (University of Bath), K. D. Alexander (Northwestern), C.
Kilpatrick (Northwestern), G. Schroeder (Northwestern), W. Fong
(Northwestern), E. Berger (Harvard), R. Margutti (Northwestern), C. G.
Mundell (University of Bath), and P. Schady (University of Bath) report on
behalf of a larger collaboration:
"We observed GRB 210610B (Page et al. GCN 30170) with the Atacama Large
Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) beginning on 2021 June 11 at 06:21:02
UT (10.5 hr after the burst) at 90.5 GHz. Preliminary analysis reveals a mm
source with flux density of ~ 0.9 mJy at position:
RA (J2000) = 16:15:40.410 (+/- 0.005)
Dec (J2000) = +014:23:56.70 (+/- 0.01)
consistent with the X-ray position (Osborne et al. GCN 30189) and optical
position (Page et al., GCN 30170; Kumar et al. GCN 30174). Follow-up
observations are planned.
We thank the JAO staff, AoD, P2G, and the entire ALMA team for their help
with these observations."
GCN Circular 30216
Subject
GRB 210610B: Liverpool Telescope optical photometry
Date
2021-06-11T23:27:49Z (4 years ago)
From
Daniel Perley at Liverpool JMU  <d.a.perley@ljmu.ac.uk>
D. A. Perley (LJMU) reports:
The 2m robotic Liverpool Telescope observed the location of the optical 
afterglow of GRB 210610B (Page et al., GCN 30170) using the IO:O camera 
on 2021-06-11 UT between 22:45:44 and 22:55:45.  Photometry with 
reference to SDSS secondary standard stars in the field gives the 
following magnitudes:
dt_GRB(d) magnitude
1.12521   u = 20.43 +/- 0.11
1.12103   g = 20.04 +/- 0.05
1.12244   r = 19.81 +/- 0.02
1.12383   i = 19.61 +/- 0.03
1.12694   z = 19.49 +/- 0.06
DisclaimerNone
GCN Circular 30215
Subject
GRB 210610B: CrAO/ZTSH optical observations and light curve
Date
2021-06-11T23:23:01Z (4 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow  <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
N. Pankov (IKI, HSE), A. Pozanenko (IKI), V. Rumyantsev (CrAO),  S.
Belkin (IKI, HSE)  report on behalf of IKI GRB FuN:
We observed the GRB 210610B (Page  et al., GCN 30170) with ZTSH 2.6m
telescope of CrAO observatory starting on June 10 (UT) 20:19:24 
(Rumyantsev et al., GCNs 30175, 30178).  The optical afterglow  first 
reported by UVOT (Page  et al., GCN 30170) is clearly detected in each 
of a single image of 10 exposure in each of BVRI filters on June 10. 
Based on our observations on June 10 (B, R - filters) and June 11 
(Pankov et al., GCN 30213) we report the light curve (LC) of the 
afterglow which can be found in
http://grb.rssi.ru/GRB210610B/GRB210610B_LC.png
Initial phase of the LC from 0.02 days and up to 0.07 days can be 
approximated by a single power law with index of -0.9, and after that we 
observe plateau phase at least up to 0.18 days after trigger (see figure 
above).
GCN Circular 30213
Subject
GRB 210610B: CrAO/ZTSH optical observations (correction to the GCN circ. 30212)
Date
2021-06-11T21:35:58Z (4 years ago)
From
Alexei Pozanenko at IKI, Moscow  <apozanen@iki.rssi.ru>
N. Pankov (IKI, HSE), A. Pozanenko (IKI), V. Rumyantsev (CrAO),  S. 
Belkin (IKI, HSE)  report on behalf of IKI GRB FuN:
In the GCN circ. 30212 we we incorrectly reported GRB 210610A instead of 
GRB 210610B. The circular should be read as follows.
We observed the GRB 210610B (Page  et al., GCN 30170) with ZTSH 2.6m 
telescope of CrAO observatory starting on June 11 (UT) 19:46:53.  The 
optical afterglow  first reported by UVOT (Page  et al., GCN 30170) is 
clearly detected in each of a single image of 120 exposure in R filter.
Preliminary photometry of the afterglow in the first image is following
Date       UT start   t-T0    Filter Exp.    OT      err
                      (mid, days)       (s)
2021-06-11 19:46:53   0.99683 R      1*120   19.50   0.12
The photometry is based on nearby USNO-B1.0 (R2) stars
USNO-B1.0 id
USNO_B10-1043-00282648
USNO_B10-1043-00282621
GCN Circular 30208
Subject
GRB 210610B: Swift-XRT refined Analysis
Date
2021-06-11T20:48:28Z (4 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester  <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
J. D. Gropp (PSU), P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), J.P. Osborne (U.
Leicester), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), M.G. Bernardini (INAF-OAB), E.
Ambrosi  (INAF-IASFPA) , J.A. Kennea (PSU), A. Tohuvavohu (U. Toronto)
and K.L. Page report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team:
We have analysed 5.8 ks of XRT data for GRB 210610B (Page et al. GCN
Circ. 30170), from 87 s to 81.7 ks after the  BAT trigger. The data
comprise 1.3 ks in Windowed Timing (WT) mode with the remainder in
Photon Counting (PC) mode. The enhanced XRT position for this burst was
given by Osborne et al. (GCN Circ. 30189).
The light curve can be modelled with a series of power-law decays. The
initial decay index is alpha=1.13 (+0.23, -0.34). At T+133 s  the decay
steepens to an alpha of 1.86 (+0.06, -0.05). The light curve breaks
again at T+397 s to a decay with alpha=0.77 (+0.06, -0.05),  before a
final break at T+1153 s s after which the decay index is 1.105 (+0.023,
-0.022).
A spectrum formed from the WT mode data can be fitted with an absorbed
power-law with a photon spectral index	of 1.847 (+/-0.022). The
best-fitting absorption column is  4.4 (+/-2.5) x 10^20 cm^-2, at a
redshift of 1.13, in addition to the Galactic value of 3.9 x 10^20
cm^-2 (Willingale et al. 2013). The PC mode spectrum has a photon index
of 1.92 (+/-0.12) and a best-fitting absorption column of 1.1 (+1.4,
-1.1) x 10^21 cm^-2. The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV
flux conversion factor deduced from this spectrum  is 3.4 x 10^-11 (3.9
x 10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1. 
A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus:
Galactic foreground: 3.9 x 10^20 cm^-2
Intrinsic column:    1.1 (+1.4, -1.1) x 10^21 cm^-2 at z=1.13
Photon index:	     1.92 (+/-0.12)
The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/01054681.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
GCN Circular 30207
Subject
GRB 210610B: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2021-06-11T19:08:46Z (4 years ago)
From
Amy Lien at GSFC  <amy.y.lien@nasa.gov>
H. A. Krimm (NSF), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
J. R. Cummings (CPI), S. Laha (GSFC/UMBC),
A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC),
K. L. Page (U Leicester), 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-240 to T+962 sec from the recent telemetry
downlink, we report further analysis of BAT GRB 210610B (trigger #1054681)
(Page et al., GCN Circ. 30170).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 243.929, 14.398 deg which is
   RA(J2000)  =  16h 15m 42.8s
   Dec(J2000) = +14d 23' 54.5"
with an uncertainty of 1.0 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 24%.
The mask-weighted light curve shows several overlapping pulses that
start at ~T-12 and end at ~T+140 s. The main peak occurs at ~T+8 s.
T90 (15-350 keV) is 69.38 +- 2.53 sec (estimated error including
systematics).
The time-averaged spectrum from T-12.04 to T+142.47 sec is best fit by
a power law with an exponential cutoff.  This fit gives a photon
index 0.98 +- 0.11, and Epeak of 339.3 +- 218.6 keV (chi squared 27.43
for 56 d.o.f.).  For this model the total fluence in the 15-150 keV band
is 3.6 +- 0.1 x 10^-5 erg/cm2 and the 1-sec peak flux measured from
T+7.95 sec in the 15-150 keV band is 13.5 +- 0.7 ph/cm2/sec.  A fit to
a simple power law gives a photon index of 1.17 +- 0.03 (chi squared 36.54
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/1054681/BA/
GCN Circular 30206
Subject
GRB 210610B: Zwicky Transient Facility afterglow detection
Date
2021-06-11T18:11:12Z (4 years ago)
From
Daniel Perley at Liverpool JMU  <d.a.perley@ljmu.ac.uk>
D. A. Perley (LJMU), Y. Yao (Caltech), A. Y. Q. Ho (UC Berkeley), M. 
Bulla (Stockholm/OKC), I. Andreoni (Caltech), M. Coughlin (U. 
Minnesota), and E. Kool (Stockholm/OKC) report:
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF; ATel #11266) observed the location 
of GRB 210610B (Page et al., GCN 30170) during the night of 2021-06-11 
UT as part of the regular operations of the ZTF high-cadence partnership 
survey.  Four separate observations of the field (ZTF field ID 533) were 
obtained between 2021-06-11 05:34:44 and 2021-06-11 08:38:29, two each 
in g-band and r-band.
The associated optical transient (e.g., Page et al., GCN 30170; Kumar et 
al., GCN 30174) was automatically identified by the ZTF image 
subtraction pipeline and assigned the identifier ZTF21abfmpwn.  The 
source was independently flagged as a fast transient candidate by both 
the ZTF fast-transient filter pipeline developed by A. Ho and Y. Yao 
(Perley et al. 2021, arXiv:2103.01968