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GCN Circular 16935

Subject

GRB 141020A: Swift-BAT refined analysis

Date

2014-10-20T21:06:53Z (10 years ago)

From

Hans Krimm at NASA-GSFC <hans.a.krimm@nasa.gov>

D. M. Palmer (LANL), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), W. H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC),
S. B. Cenko (GSFC), J. R. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC), N. Gehrels (GSFC),
H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC),
T. Sakamoto (AGU), M. Stamatikos (OSU), J. Tueller (GSFC),
T. N. Ukwatta (LANL) (i.e. the Swift-BAT team):

Using the data set from T-61 to T+242 sec from the recent telemetry downlink,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 141020A (trigger #615873)
(Cenko, et al., GCN Circ. 16928Loading...
 
 ).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 225.054, 55.328 deg which is
    RA(J2000)  =  15h 00m 12.9s
    Dec(J2000) = +55d 19' 42.3"
with an uncertainty of 1.7 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 67%.

The mask-weighted light curve shows a broad structure with multiple peaks
superimposed starting at T-8 sec and continuing until T+13 sec.  T90 (15-350
keV) is 15.55 +- 2.05 sec (estimated error including systematics).

The time-averaged spectrum from T-5.66 to T+11.30 sec is best fit by a simple
power-law model.  The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
1.74 +- 0.18.  The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 4.6 +- 0.6 x 10^-7
erg/cm2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T-0.20 sec in the 15-150 keV
band is 0.7 +- 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/615873/BA/