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GCN Circular 36974

Subject
GRB 240727A: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2024-07-29T19:11:10Z (4 months ago)
From
Rahul Gupta at NASA GSFC <rahul.gupta@nasa.gov>
Via
email
R. Gupta (GSFC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
H. A. Krimm (NSF), S. Laha (GSFC/UMBC),
A. Y. Lien (U Tampa), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC),
M. J. Moss (GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL),
T. Parsotan (GSFC), D. Sadaula (GSFC/UMBC),
T. Sakamoto (AGU)(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 240727A (trigger #1245074)
(Parsotan, et al., GCN Circ. 36938).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 236.451, 8.612 deg which is
   RA(J2000)  =  15h 45m 48.2s
   Dec(J2000) = +08d 36' 41.8"
with an uncertainty of 1.6 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 100%.

The mask-weighted BAT light curve shows a complex structure with a duration of ~ 215 sec. T90 (15-350 keV) is 177.88 +- 35.46 sec (estimated error including systematics).

The time-averaged spectrum from T-6.79 to T+201.06 sec is best fit by a simple power-law model.  The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is 1.62 +- 0.18.  The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 1.4 +- 0.2 x 10^-06 erg/cm2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+3.12 sec in the 15-150 keV band is 0.4 +- 0.1 ph/cm2/sec.  All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level.

The results of the batgrbproduct analysis are available at
https://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/results/BATbursts/hand/1245074/bascript/top.html


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