GCN Circular 31375
Subject
GRB 211229B: Swift/BAT-GUANO detection outside the coded FOV
Event
Date
2022-01-03T17:54:26Z (5 years ago)
From
Aaron Tohuvavohu at U Toronto <aaron.tohu@gmail.com>
Gayathri Raman (PSU), Aaron Tohuvavohu (U Toronto), James DeLaunay
(UAlabama), Jamie A. Kennea (PSU), report:
Swift/BAT did not localize GRB 211229B (T0: 2021-12-29T22:18:43 UTC,
Fermi/GBM GCN 31336, GECAM GCN 31339, AGILE GCN 31344,
INTEGRAL/SPI-ACS #9581).
The INTEGRAL, Fermi, and GECAM notices, distributed in near real-time,
triggered the Swift Mission Operations Center operated Gamma-ray
Urgent Archiver for Novel Opportunities (GUANO; Tohuvavohu et al.
2020, ApJ, 900, 1).
Upon trigger by this notice, GUANO sent a command to the Swift Burst
Alert Telescope (BAT) to save 200 seconds of BAT event-mode data from
[-50,+150] seconds around the time of the burst. All the requested
event mode data was delivered to the ground.
The BAT likelihood search, NITRATES (DeLaunay + Tohuvavohu,
arXiv:2111.01769), detects the burst with a sqrt(TS) of 12.4 in a
4.096 s analysis time bin.
NITRATES results are consistent with a burst coming from outside the
coded FOV, with DeltaLLHOut of 5.
An out of FOV origin is consistent with the Fermi/GBM and GECAM localizations.
See Section 9.1 and Figure 20 in the NITRATES paper for brief
descriptions and interpretation of sqrt(TS), DeltaLLHPeak, and
DeltaLLHOut.
GUANO is a fully autonomous, extremely low latency, spacecraft
commanding pipeline designed for targeted recovery of BAT event mode
data around the times of compelling astrophysical events to enable
more sensitive GRB searches.
A live reporting of Swift/BAT event data recovered by GUANO can be
found at: https://www.swift.psu.edu/guano/