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GCN Circular 17890

Subject

GRB 150530A: Swift-BAT refined analysis

Date

2015-05-30T16:15:22Z (10 years ago)

From

Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>

C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), 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), D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (AGU),
M. Stamatikos (OSU), R. L. C. Starling (U Leicester), T. N. Ukwatta (LANL)
(i.e. the Swift-BAT team):
 
Using the data set from T-61 to T+242 sec from recent telemetry downlinks,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 150530A (trigger #642018)
(Strling, et al., GCN Circ. 17888Loading...
 
 ).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 327.511, 57.519 deg, which is 
   RA(J2000)  =  21h 50m 02.6s 
   Dec(J2000) = +57d 31' 07.4" 
with an uncertainty of 1.2 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 17%.
 
The mask-weighted light curve shows a couple overlapping peaks starting
at ~T-10 sec, peaking at ~T+2 sec, and ending at ~T+40 sec.
T90 (15-350 keV) is 6.62 +- 0.84 sec (estimated error including systematics).
 
The time-averaged spectrum from T-4.21 to T+3.49 sec is best fit by a simple
power-law model.  The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
1.49 +- 0.11.  The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 1.8 +- 0.1 x 10^-06 erg/cm2.
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+0.48 sec in the 15-150 keV band
is 4.1 +- 0.6 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/642018/BA/