GCN Circular 21143

A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
J. R. Cummings (CPI), J.G. Gropp (PSU),
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-61 to T+242 sec from the recent telemetry downlink,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 170524A (trigger #754322)
(Gropp et al., GCN Circ. 21135
Not found
 
 
).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 319.488, 48.603 deg which is
  RA(J2000)  =  21h 17m 57.2s
  Dec(J2000) = +48d 36' 12.5"
with an uncertainty of 2.0 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 96%.

The mask-weighted light curve shows a double peaked structure
with the first pulse from ~T0 to ~T+0.05, and second pulse from ~T+0.05 to ~T+0.1.
T90 (15-350 keV) is 0.10 +- 0.02 sec (estimated error including systematics).

The time-averaged spectrum from T+0.00 to T+0.12 sec fit by a simple
power-law model shows the power law index of 1.07 +- 0.24 (chi squared 47.68 for 57 d.o.f.).
The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 3.7 +- 0.6 x 10^-8 erg/cm2.
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T-0.44 sec in the 15-150 keV band
is 0.5 +- 0.1 ph/cm2/sec.

A single blackbody fit to the time-averaged spectrum shows the blackbody
temperature of 21.09 +- 3.99 keV (chi squared 51.91 for 57 d.o.f.).
A thermal bremsstrahlung model fit shows the temperature of 199.36 +- -80.44 keV
(chi squared 57.87 for 57 d.o.f.).  A double blackbody fit shows the lower temperature
of 5.84 (error not unconstrained) keV and the higher temperature of 25.96 +15.56 keV
(chi squared 45.99 for 55 d.o.f.).  All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level.

The photon index of ~ 1 using the simple power-law model is consistent with those from
the BAT-detected short GRBs (Lien & Sakamoto et al. 2016), and harder than
the spectra of many BAT-detected SGRs, which have photon index ~ 3.
In addition, the double-peaked structure seen in this burst is not commonly observed in
the BAT light curves of SGRs (with time bins >= 2 ms).

The results of the batgrbproduct analysis are available at
http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/notices_s/754322/BA/