GCN Circular 13769
Subject
GRB 120913A: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2012-09-14T13:23:35Z (12 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
W. H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. R. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC),
E. E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC), E. A. Helder (PSU),
H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL),
T. Sakamoto (GSFC/UMBC), G. Sato (ISAS), M. Stamatikos (OSU),
J. Tueller (GSFC), T. N. Ukwatta (MSU)
(i.e. the Swift-BAT team):
Using the data set from T-240 to T+962 sec from recent telemetry downlinks,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 120913A (trigger #533568)
(Helder, et al., GCN Circ. 13762). The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 146.400, 26.959 deg, which is
RA(J2000) = 09h 45m 36.1s
Dec(J2000) = +26d 57' 32.4"
with an uncertainty of 1.2 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 71%.
The mask-weighted light curve shows three slightly overlapping FRED peaks
starting at ~T-5 sec, peaking at ~T+1, ~T+23, & ~T+40 sec, and ending at ~T+42 sec.
Due to a slew, the burst location left the BAT FoV at ~T+115 sec.
T90 (15-350 keV) is 30.1 +- 4.8 sec (estimated error including systematics).
The time-averaged spectrum from T-0.72 to T+39.80 sec is best fit by a simple
power-law model. The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
2.18 +- 0.15. The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 8.7 +- 0.8 x 10^-7 erg/cm2.
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+22.45 sec in the 15-150 keV band
is 2.3 +- 0.2 ph/cm2/sec. 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/533568/BA/