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GCN Circular 17539

Subject
GRB 150302A, Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2015-03-03T04:01:52Z (9 years ago)
From
Amy Lien at GSFC <amy.y.lien@nasa.gov>
S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), W. H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC), J. R. Cummings
(GSFC/UMBC),
N. Gehrels (GSFC), H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC),
C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL), 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 150302A (trigger #633237)
(Lien, et al., GCN Circ. 17526).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 175.515, 36.852 deg which is
 RA(J2000)  =  11h 42m 03.6s
 Dec(J2000) = +36d 51' 06.3"
with an uncertainty of 2.8 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 100%.

The mask-weighted light curve shows a weak single-peaked structure that
starts
at ~ T-1 s, peaks at ~T+3 s, and ends at ~T+20 s. T90 (15-350 keV) is 23.74
+- 8.79 sec
(estimated error including systematics).

The time-averaged spectrum from T-1.14 to T+28.23 sec is best fit by a
simple
power-law model.  The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
1.69 +- 0.33.  The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 2.6 +- 0.6 x 10^-7
erg/cm2.
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+2.61 sec in the 15-150 keV band
is 0.4 +- 0.1 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/633237/BA/
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