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GCN Circular 16107

Subject
Konus-Wind observation of GRB 140413A
Date
2014-04-14T12:09:24Z (10 years ago)
From
Dmitry Frederiks at Ioffe Institute <fred@mail.ioffe.ru>
S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, D. Frederiks, V. Pal'shin,
P. Oleynik, M. Ulanov, D. Svinkin, A. Tsvetkova, and T. Cline
on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report:

The long GRB 140413A (Swift-BAT trigger #595616:
D'Elia et al., GCN 16098; T0(BAT)=00:09:40 UT)
was detected by Konus-Wind in the waiting mode.

The light curve shows a broad emission pulse which started
~65 s before the BAT trigger, peaked at ~T0(BAT)+80 s,
and lasted till ~T0(BAT)+120 s.

A possible soft precursor is seen at ~T0(BAT)-950 s
in the softest KW energy band, however its association with
GRB 140413A is not confirmed yet.

The K-W light curve of this burst is available at
http://www.ioffe.rssi.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB140413A/

As observed by Konus-Wind, the burst had a fluence of
(2.9 � 0.3)x10^-5 erg/cm2 and a 2.944-s peak energy flux,
measured from ~T0(BAT)+80 s, of (5.2 � 0.5)x10^-7 erg/cm2
(both in the 20 - 10000 keV energy range).

Modeling the KW 3-channel time-integrated spectrum
(from T0(BAT)-60 s to T0(BAT)+121 s) by a power law
with exponential cutoff model:
dN/dE ~ (E^alpha)*exp(-E*(2+alpha)/Ep)
yields alpha = -1.37 � 0.11, and Ep = 228 � 42 keV.

All the quoted errors are estimated at the 1 sigma confidence level.
All the presented results are preliminary.
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