GCN Circular 19856
Subject
GRB 160824B: Fermi GBM detection
Date
2016-08-25T02:27:41Z (8 years ago)
From
Rachel Hamburg at UAH <rkh0007@uah.edu>
R. Hamburg (UAH)
reports on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:
"At 14:21:12.94 UT on 24 August 2016, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
triggered and located GRB 160824B (trigger 493741276 / 160824598).
The on-ground calculated location, using the GBM trigger
data, is RA = 73, DEC = +68, with an uncertainty
of 1 degrees (radius, 1-sigma containment,
statistical only; there is additionally a systematic
error which we have characterized as a core-plus-tail model, with 90% of
GRBs having a 3.7 deg error and a small tail suffering a larger than 10 deg
systematic error. [Connaughton et al. 2015, ApJS, 216, 32] ).
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight at the GBM trigger time is 121
degrees.
The GBM light curve consists of a single peak
with a duration (T90) of about 3.6 s (50-300 keV).
The time-averaged spectrum from T0-0.26 to T0+3.07 s is
best fit by a power law function with an exponential
high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -0.20 +/- 0.06 and
the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 649.70 +/- 32.60 keV.
The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(1.39 +/- 0.03)E-05 erg/cm^2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured
starting from T0+1.7 s in the 10-1000 keV band
is 11.9 +/- 0.4 ph/s/cm^2.
The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary;
final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog."