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GCN Circular 20622

Subject
GRB 170206B: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2017-02-07T13:47:54Z (7 years ago)
From
Amy Lien at GSFC <amy.y.lien@nasa.gov>
A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
J. R. Cummings (CPI), N. Gehrels (GSFC),
H. A. Krimm (NSF/USRA), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC),
D. M. Palmer (LANL), 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+359 sec from the recent telemetry downlink,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 170206B (trigger #737125)
(Lien et al., GCN Circ. 20618).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 271.784, 11.175 deg which is
   RA(J2000)  =  18h 07m 08.2s
   Dec(J2000) = +11d 10' 28.3"
with an uncertainty of 2.2 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 78%.

The mask-weighted light curve shows a weak pulse that starts at ~T0 and
ends at ~T+15 s. T90 (15-350 keV) is 13.36 +- 2.67 sec (estimated error
including systematics).

The time-averaged spectrum from T-0.33 to T+15.53 sec is best fit by a simple
power-law model.  The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
1.42 +- 0.27.  The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 3.2 +- 0.6 x 10^-7 erg/cm2.
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T-0.32 sec in the 15-150 keV band
is 0.4 +- 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/737125/BA/
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