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GCN Circular 21271

Subject
GRB 170626A: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2017-06-27T01:57:25Z (7 years ago)
From
Amy Lien at GSFC <amy.y.lien@nasa.gov>
S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. R. Cummings (CPI),
H. A. Krimm (NSF/USRA), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC),
C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), F. E. Marshall (NASA/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+963 sec from the recent telemetry downlink,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 170626A (trigger #758766)
(Marshall et al., GCN Circ. 21264).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 165.409, 56.479 deg which is
  RA(J2000)  =  11h 01m 38.1s
  Dec(J2000) = +56d 28' 45.4"
with an uncertainty of 1.0 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 96%.

The mask-weighted light curve shows a multi-peaked structure. The main
emission starts at ~ T-1 s, peaks at ~T0, and ends at ~T+12 s. In addition,
there are some weak emissions that start prior to the main pulse at ~T-20 s,
and another weak pulse at ~T+80 s. T90 (15-350 keV) is 12.94 +- 0.34 sec
(estimated error including systematics).

The time-averaged spectrum from T-21.34 to T+17.92 sec is best fit by a power law
with an exponential cutoff.  This fit gives a photon index 1.26 +- 0.14,
and Epeak of 120.9 +- 31.0 keV (chi squared 51.05 for 56 d.o.f.).  For this
model the total fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 8.2 +- 0.2 x 10^-6 erg/cm2
and the 1-sec peak flux measured from T-0.06 sec in the 15-150 keV band is
23.6 +- 0.6 ph/cm2/sec.  A fit to a simple power law gives a photon index
of 1.60 +- 0.03 (chi squared 69.77 for 57 d.o.f.).  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/758766/BA/
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