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GCN Circular 34334

Subject
GRB 230802A: Fermi GBM observation
Date
2023-08-04T15:39:21Z (9 months ago)
From
Joe Mangan at IJCLab <joseph.mangan@ijclab.in2p3.fr>
Via
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C. de Barra (UCD), J.Mangan (CNRS/IJCLab) and C. Meegan (UAH)
report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:

"At 06:50:22.23 UT on 2 August 2023, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM)
triggered and located GRB 230802A (trigger 712651827 / 230802285),
which was also detected by Swift BAT (N. J. Klingler et al. 2023, GCN 34313).
The Fermi GBM on-ground location is consistent with the Swift BAT position.

The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight at the GBM trigger time is 107 degrees.

The GBM light curve consists of a single peak
with a duration (T90) of about 38 s (50-300 keV)The time-averaged spectrum from -14.3s to 26.6 s is
best fit by a simple power law function with index -1.7 +/- 0.02.

The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(1.3 +/- 0.1)E-05 erg/cm^2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured
starting from T0+4.4 s in the 10-1000 keV band
is 5.6 +/- 0.4 ph/s/cm^2.

The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary;
final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog:
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/fermi/fermigbrst.html

For Fermi GBM data and info, please visit the official Fermi GBM Support Page:
https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/access/gbm/"

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