GCN Circular 21502
Subject
GRB 170805A: AstroSat CZTI detection
Date
2017-08-17T08:49:43Z (8 years ago)
From
Vidushi Sharma at IUCAA <vidushi@iucaa.in>
V. Sharma (IUCAA), V. Bhalerao (IITB), D. Bhattacharya (IUCAA), A. R. Rao (TIFR) and S. Vadawale (PRL) report on behalf of the AstroSat CZTI collaboration:
Analysis of AstroSat CZTI data showed clear detection of short GRB 170805A (Insight-HXMT detection: Ma X. et al, GCN Circ. 21421) in the 40-200 keV energy range. The light curve shows single peak emission at 14:38:34.70 UT, around ~0.7 s before the Insight-HXMT trigger. The measured peak count rate is 4917.1 counts/s above the background in combined data of four quadrants, with a total 22361 counts. The local mean background count rate was 372.9 counts/s. Using cumulative rates, we measure a T90 of 0.96 s.
It was clearly detected in the CsI anticoincidence detector (Veto) also as bright detection in the 100-500 keV energy range.
CZTI GRB detections are reported regularly on the payload site at http://astrosat.iucaa.in/czti/?q=grb. CZTI is built by a TIFR-led consortium of institutes across India, including VSSC, ISAC, IUCAA, SAC and PRL. The Indian Space Research Organisation funded, managed and facilitated the project.