GCN Circular 3856
Subject
GRB 050822: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2005-08-22T17:47:01Z (19 years ago)
From
Takanori Sakamoto at NASA/GSFC <takanori@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>
D. Hullinger (UMD), L. Angelini (GSFC-JHU), L. Barbier (GSFC),
S. Barthelmy (GSFC), M. Chester (PSU), J. Cummings (GSFC/NRC),
E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC), H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA),
C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD), D. Palmer (LANL), A. Parsons (GSFC),
T. Sakamoto (GSFC/NRC), G. Sato (ISAS), J. Tueller (GSFC),
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:
Using the full data set from the recent telemetry downlink, we report
further analysis of Swift-BAT GRB 050822 (trigger #151486)
(Blustin, et al., GCN 3849). The refined BAT ground position
is (RA,Dec) = 51.098, -46.031 {03:24:19.2, -46:01:22.8} [deg; J2000]
+-2 arcmin, (90% containment). This is 27 arc-seconds from the
XRT position reported in GCN 3849. The partial coding was 44%.
The light curve has two main peaks. The first peak starts from
T0-4 sec, peaking at T0, and then ending at T0+20 sec with a gradual
decay. The second peak contains multiple sub-peaks. It starts
from T0+20 sec and ends at T0+75 sec. There is a smaller, somewhat
softer peak from T+100 to T+104 seconds while Swift was pointing at
the source and the XRT was taking data. T90 (15-350 keV) is (102 +- 2)
seconds (estimated error including systematics).
The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is 2.5 +- 0.1.
Thus, the time-averaged spectrum turns out to be soft.
The fluence in the 15-350 keV band is (3.4 +- 0.3) x 10^-6 erg/cm2.
The 1-s peak photon flux measured from T0+47.6 second in the 15-350 keV
band is (2.9 +- 0.3) ph/cm2/s. All the quoted errors are at the 90%
confidence level.