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GCN Circular 21423

Subject
GRB 170807A: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2017-08-08T12:40:58Z (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), J. D. 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-240 to T+962 sec from the recent telemetry downlink,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 170807A (trigger #766821)
(Gropp et al., GCN Circ. 21420).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 143.434, -17.348 deg which is
  RA(J2000)  =  09h 33m 44.2s
  Dec(J2000) = -17d 20' 51.9"
with an uncertainty of 1.5 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 92%.

The mask-weighted light curve shows a multi-peaked structure that starts at
~T0 and ends at ~T+50 s. The two main peaks occur at ~T+1 s and ~T+30 s,
respectively. T90 (15-350 keV) is 48.5 +- 11.7 sec (estimated error including systematics).

The time-averaged spectrum from T-0.42 to T+53.08 sec is best fit by a simple
power-law model.  The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
1.82 +- 0.15.  The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 8.6 +- 0.8 x 10^-7 erg/cm2.
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+0.73 sec in the 15-150 keV band
is 1.4 +- 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/766821/BA/
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