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GCN Circular 18086

Subject
GRB 150727A: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2015-07-28T12:05:52Z (10 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
M. Stamatikos (OSU), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), 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), D. M. Palmer (LANL),
T. Sakamoto (AGU), T. N. Ukwatta (LANL)
(i.e. the Swift-BAT team):
 
Using the data set from T-239 to T+963 sec from the recent telemetry downlinks,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 150727A (trigger #650530)
(Cenko, et al., GCN Circ. 18076Loading...
 
 ).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 203.968, -18.320 deg, which is 
   RA(J2000)  =  13h 35m 52.3s 
   Dec(J2000) = -18d 19' 11.4" 
with an uncertainty of 1.0 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 68%.
 
The mask-weighted light curve shows a FRED-like peak starting at ~T-8 sec,
peaking at ~T+5 sec, and ramping down to a flat level at ~T+80 sec.
There is a second, small peak at ~T+90 sec.  The low level emission
continues (with a weak decline) out to T+870 sec when observations stop
due to an observing constraint.
T90 (15-350 keV) is 88 +- 13 sec (estimated error including systematics).
 
The time-averaged spectrum from T-8.70 to T+95.94 sec is best fit by a simple
power-law model.  The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
1.14 +- 0.07.  The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 3.7 +- 0.2 x 10^-6 erg/cm2.
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+9.21 sec in the 15-150 keV band
is 1.0 +- 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/650530/BA/

[GCN OPS NOTE(29jul15): Per author's request, the typo on the uncertainty
in the T90 value was changed from 133 to 13 sec.]