GCN Circular 20826
Subject
GRB 170306B: Fermi-LAT detection
Date
2017-03-06T18:58:37Z (8 years ago)
From
Nicola Omodei at Stanford U. <nicola.omodei@slac.stanford.edu>
N. Omodei (Stanford U.), G, Vianello (Stanford U.), D. Tak(U. of
Maryland) and F. Longo (University and INFN Trieste) report on behalf of
the Fermi-LAT team:
At 14:07:22.27 on March 06, 2017, Fermi-LAT detected high-energy
emission from GRB 170306B, which was also detected by Fermi-GBM (trigger
510502047).
The best LAT on-ground location is found to be RA, Dec 154.62, 51.59
(degrees, J2000) with an error radius of 0.61 deg (90% containment,
statistical error only).
This was 55 deg from the LAT boresight at the time of the trigger and
triggered an autonomous repoint of the spacecraft.
The data from the Fermi-LAT show a significant increase in the event
rate within 4.3 degree of the GBM location after the GBM trigger that is
temporally correlated with the GBM emission with high significance.
More than 10 photons above 100 MeV are observed within 300 seconds.
The highest-energy photon is a 500 MeV event which is observed 46
seconds after the GBM trigger.
A Swift ToO has been requested for this burst.
The Fermi-LAT point of contact for this burst is Nicola Omodei
(nicola.omodei@stanford.edu).
The Fermi-LAT is a pair conversion telescope designed to cover the
energy band from 20 MeV to greater than 300 GeV.
It is the product of an international collaboration between NASA and DOE
in the U.S. and many scientific institutions across France, Italy, Japan
and Sweden.