GCN Circular 10568
Subject
GRB 100401A: Fermi GBM detection
Date
2010-04-02T22:59:08Z (15 years ago)
From
Adam Goldstein at Fermi-GBM/UAH <adam.m.goldstein@msfc.nasa.gov>
A. Goldstein (UAH) and D. Gruber (MPE)
report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:
"At 07:07:32.24 UT on 1 April 2010, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
triggered and located GRB 100401A (trigger 291798454 / 100401297)
which was also detected by the Swift-BAT (J.R. Cummings et al. 2010,
GCN 10567). The GBM on-ground location is consistent with the
Swift-BAT position. The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is 45 degrees.
The GBM light curve consists of an initial bright pulse at trigger time
lasting ~4 s followed by a second, much softer pulse of ~30 s in duration,
approximately 65 s after trigger time. The total duration (T90) is
estimated to be about 100 s (8-1000 keV). The time-averaged spectrum of
the first pulse from T0-1.9 s to T0+3.2 s is best fit by a power law
function with an exponential high energy cutoff. The power law index is
-1.49 +/- 0.17 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is
144.90 +/- 62.20 keV (chi squared 439 for 483 d.o.f.). The first
pulse is equally well fit by a simple power law with index
-1.77 +/- 0.06 (chi squared 444 for 484 d.o.f.). The
time-averaged spectrum of the second pulse from T0+74.9 s to
T0+98.4 s is well fit by a power law function with an exponential
high energy cutoff. The power law index is -1.52 +/- 0.39 and
the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 29.34 +/- 8.96 keV
(chi squared 511 for 483 d.o.f.). The second pulse is equally well
fit by a simple power law with index -2.16 +/- 0.11 (chi squared
514 for 484 d.o.f.).
The event fluence (8-1000 keV) over the entire emission is
(2.39 +/- 0.05)E-06 erg/cm^2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured
starting from T0-1.4 s in the 8-1000 keV band
is 3.61 +/- 0.16 ph/s/cm^2.
The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary;
final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog."