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GCN Circular 23721

Subject
GRB 190114B, Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2019-01-15T16:59:37Z (5 years ago)
From
Amy Lien at GSFC <amy.y.lien@nasa.gov>
J. R. Cummings (CPI), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
H. A. Krimm (NSF/USRA), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC),
C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL),
T. Sakamoto (AGU), M. H. Siegel (PSU),
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 190114B (trigger #883818)
(Siegel et al., GCN Circ. 23686Not found
 
 
).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 174.868, 18.882 deg which is
  RA(J2000)  =  11h 39m 28.3s
  Dec(J2000) = +18d 52' 53.5"
with an uncertainty of 2.3 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 63%.

The mask-weighted light curve shows a weak pulse that starts at ~T0 and ends
at ~T+30 s. The possible precursor seen at ~T-75 s (Siegel et al., GCN Circ. 23686Not found
 
 
)
turns out to be purely instrumental and is not related to this GRB.
T90 (15-350 keV) is 26.5 +- 6.7 sec (estimated error including systematics).

The time-averaged spectrum from T-1.2 to T+27.9 sec is best fit by a simple
power-law model.  The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
1.98 +- 0.28.  The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 5.1 +- 1.0 x 10^-7 erg/cm2.
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+3.62 sec in the 15-150 keV band
is 0.5 +- 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/883818/BA/