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GCN Circular 4102

Subject
GRB 051016: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2005-10-16T17:34:48Z (19 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <Scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
J. Tueller (GSFC), L. Barbier (GSFC), S. Barthelmy (GSFC), 
J. Cannizzo (GSFC-UMBC), J. Cummings (GSFC/NRC), E. Fenimore (LANL), 
N. Gehrels (GSFC), D. Hullinger (UMD), H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), 
C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD), D. Palmer (LANL), A. Parsons (GSFC), 
T. Sakamoto (GSFC/NRC), G. Sato (ISAS), 
M. Tashiro (Saitama U.), 
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:

Using the data set from T-300 to T+300 sec from recent telemetry
downlinks, we report further analysis of Swift-BAT GRB 051016 (trigger 159913)
(Boyd, et al., GCN 4096).  The refined BAT ground position is
(RA,Dec) = 122.820, -18.309 deg {8h 11m 16.9s, -18d 18' 33.2"} (J2000)
+- 2.0 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).  This position is
38 arcsec from the refined XRT position (Beardmore t al., GCN 4100).
The partial coding was 18 %.  

The light curve shows a FRED-like peak.  T90 (15-350 keV) is (22 +- 1) sec 
(estimated error including systematics).  

The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is 1.88 +- 0.27.  
The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is (8.8 +- 1.4) x 10^-7 erg/cm2.  
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T0+0.3 sec in the 15-150 keV 
band is (1.6 +- 0.4) ph/cm2/sec.  All the quoted errors are at the 90% 
confidence level.
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