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GCN Circular 18232

Subject

GRB 150901A, Swift-BAT refined analysis

Date

2015-09-03T12:53:33Z (9 years ago)

From

Amy Lien at GSFC <amy.y.lien@nasa.gov>

J. R. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), N. Gehrels (GSFC),
H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC),
D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (AGU), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB/PSU),
M. Stamatikos (OSU), T. N. Ukwatta (LANL) (i.e. the Swift-BAT team):

Using the data set from T-254 to T+640 sec from the recent telemetry downlink,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 150901A (trigger #654042)
(Sbarufatti, et al., GCN Circ. 18225Not found
 
 
).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 183.609, 25.076 deg which is
  RA(J2000)  =  12h 14m 26.1s
  Dec(J2000) = +25d 04' 35.2"
with an uncertainty of 2.7 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 41%.

The mask-weighted light curve shows some weak emissions that start at
~ T-70 s, followed by the main structure with several overlapping pulses
from ~T0 to ~T+18 s. T90 (15-350 keV) is 64.0 +- 35.8 sec (estimated error
including systematics).

The time-averaged spectrum from T-61.8 to T+18.2 sec is best fit by a simple
power-law model.  The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
2.72 +- 0.53.  The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 4.5 +- 1.3 x 10^-7 erg/cm2.
The 1-s peak photon flux is unconstrained due to the weakness of the burst.
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/654042/BA/