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GCN Circular 18496

Subject
GRB 151027A: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2015-10-27T18:51:53Z (9 years ago)
From
Amy Lien at GSFC <amy.y.lien@nasa.gov>
D. M. Palmer (LANL), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. R. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC),
N. Gehrels (GSFC), H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC),
C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), A. Maselli (INAF-IASFPA), T. Sakamoto (AGU),
M. Stamatikos (OSU), 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 downlink,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 151027A (trigger #661775)
(Maselli et al., GCN Circ. 18478Loading...
 
 ).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 272.498, 61.361 deg which is
  RA(J2000)  =  18h 09m 59.6s
  Dec(J2000) = +61d 21' 39.6"
with an uncertainty of 1.1 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 18%.

The mask-weighted light curve shows a complex structure with roughly two main
pulses. The first pulse starts at ~T0, peaks at ~T+1 s, and ends at ~T+5 s. The
second pulse starts at ~T+90 s, peaks at ~T+110 s, and ends at ~T+170 s.
T90 (15-350 keV) is 129.69 +- 5.55 sec (estimated error including systematics).

The time-averaged spectrum from T-0.74 to T+164.70 sec is best fit by a simple
power-law model.  The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
1.72 +- 0.05.  The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 7.8 +- 0.2 x 10^-6 erg/cm2.
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+0.20 sec in the 15-150 keV band
is 6.8 +- 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/661775/BA/