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GCN Circular 17795

Subject
GRB 150430A: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2015-04-30T15:04:52Z (9 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), W. H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC),
J. R. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC), V. D'Elia (ASDC), N. Gehrels (GSFC),
A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL),
T. Sakamoto (AGU), M. Stamatikos (OSU), T. N. Ukwatta (LANL)
(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 150430A (trigger #639433)
(D'Elia, et al., GCN Circ. 17789).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 326.481, -27.919 deg, which is 
   RA(J2000)  =  21h 45m 55.5s 
   Dec(J2000) = -27d 55' 07.9" 
with an uncertainty of 1.6 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 5%.
 
The mask-weighted light curve shows several peaks starting at ~T-10 sec,
the hightest peak at ~T+2 sec, the last peak at ~T+97 sec, and ending at ~T+110 sec.
T90 (15-350 keV) is 107.1 +- 6.7 sec (estimated error including systematics).
 
The time-averaged spectrum from T-11.64 to T+108.70 sec is best fit by a simple
power-law model.  The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
1.43 +- 0.12.  The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 6.9 +- 0.5 x 10^-6 erg/cm2.
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+0.97 sec in the 15-150 keV band
is 5.0 +- 1.0 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/639433/BA/
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