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GCN Circular 2918

Subject
GRB041228: Swift-BAT detection of a burst
Date
2004-12-28T18:08:18Z (19 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <Scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
A. Parsons, S. Barthelmy, L. Barbier (GSFC), S. Campana (OAB),
J. Cummings (GSFC), E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC),
J. Hill (PSU), D. Hullinger (GSFC/UMD), H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA),
C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD), F. Marshall (GSFC), K. McLean (LANL),
D. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (GSFC), G. Sato (ISAS), M. Suzuki (Saitama), 
M. Tashiro (Saitama), J. Tueller (GSFC)
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:

At 10:49:13 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and
located on-board GRB041228.  The spacecraft did not autonomously slew
to the burst since automated slewing was not yet enabled.

The BAT ground-calculated location is RA,Dec 336.641,+5.050 (J2000)
with an uncertainty of 5 arcmin (radius, 3-sigma, including a systematic
uncertainty).  The lightcurve is multi-peaked with a main emission duration
of ~40 s, with 36 counts/cm^2 fluence and a peak (1 second interval)
of ~1.2 counts/cm^2/s in the 15-350 keV band.  And there appears to be
extended emission for another 80 sec.
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