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GCN Circular 17140

Subject
GRB 141205A Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2014-12-05T16:42:04Z (10 years ago)
From
Jay R. Cummings at NASA/GSFC/Swift <james.r.cummings@nasa.gov>
C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), W. H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC),
J. R. Cummings, N. Gehrels (GSFC), H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC),
D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (AGU), M. Stamatikos (OSU), J. Tueller (GSFC),
T. N. Ukwatta (LANL), A. Vargas (PSU)
(i.e. the Swift-BAT team):

We report further analysis of GRB 141205A (Cummings, GCN 17137).  The best
BAT position is RA, Dec  92.859, +37.876, which is:

RA (J2000)    06 11 26.1s
Dec (J2000)  +37d 52' 32.2"

with an estimated position uncertainty of 2 arcmin radius.  The source was
41% coded in BAT.

The unweighted lightcurve shows multiple weak peaks.  T90 was 1.1 +- 0.2
seconds.

The total spectrum in  BAT is best fit by a simple power-law function with
a photon index of 0.985 +- 0.002.  The fluence in 1.4 seconds was
(1.2 +- 0.3) x 10^-7 ergs/cm^2.  Errors are 90% confidence.

Because this burst was found in ground analysis, the normal automated burst
analysis products are not available.
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