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GCN Circular 37355

Subject
GRB 240825A: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2024-08-30T23:32:53Z (a month ago)
From
Amy <yarleen@gmail.com>
Via
email
M. J. Moss (GSFC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), R. Gupta (GSFC), H. A. Krimm
(NSF), S. Laha (GSFC/UMBC), A. Y. Lien (U Tampa), C. B. Markwardt (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-240 to T+800 sec from the recent telemetry
downlink, we report further analysis of BAT GRB 240825A (trigger #1250617)
(Gupta et al., GCN Circ. 37274).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 344.570, 1.019 deg which is
   RA(J2000)  =  22h 58m 16.9s
   Dec(J2000) = +01d 01' 08.9"
with an uncertainty of 1.0 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment). The
partial coding was 53%.

The mask-weighted light curve shows a very bright FRED-like pulse that
starts at ~T0 and peaks at ~T+1.8 s. In addition, there are some secondary
pulses on top of the main FRED-like structure. The main structure ends at
~T+10 s, and there is a long tail emission that lasts till ~T+300 s. T90
(15-350 keV) is 57.20 +- 8.57 sec (estimated error including systematics).

The time-averaged spectrum from T-0.04 to T+216.76 sec is best fit by a
simple power-law model.  The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum
is 1.20 +- 0.03.  The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 2.5 +- 0.04 x
10^-05 erg/cm2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T+1.44 sec in the
15-150 keV band is 100.0 +- 1.7 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/batgrbcat/BAT_refined_circular/1250617

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