GCN Circular 31829

Rachel Hamburg (UAH) and Boyan Hristov (UAH)
report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:

"At 20:42:39.05 UT on 03 April 2022, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM)
triggered and located GRB 220403B (trigger 670711364 / 220403863), which
was also detected by the Swift/BAT and the Swift/XRT (Klingler et al. 2022,
GCN 31820
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). Additionally, the optical afterglow was detected by the
Swift/UVOT (Klingler et al. 2022, GCN 31820
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), D50 (Jelinek et al. 2022,
GCN 31821
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), Nanshan/NEXT (Zhu et al. 2022, GCN 31823
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) and LBT (Rossi 2022,
GCN 31826
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).

The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight at the GBM trigger time is 43
degrees.

The GBM light curve shows broad rise with multiple peaks with a
duration (T90) of about 28 s (50-300 keV).

The time-averaged spectrum from T0-6.1 s to T0+21.5 s is best fit by a
power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law
index is -1.2 +/- 0.1 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak,
is 79 +/- 3 keV. The spectrum is also well fit by a Band function with
Epeak = 70 +/- 5, alpha = -1.1 +/- 0.1, and beta = -2.6 +/- 0.2.

The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(5.2 +/- 0.1)E-06 erg/cm^2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured
starting from T0+7.6 s in the 10-1000 keV band is 4.3 +/- 0.2 ph/s/cm^2.

The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary;
final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog:
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/fermi/fermigbrst.html

For Fermi GBM data and info, please visit the official Fermi GBM Support
Page:
https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/access/gbm/"