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GCN Circular 5561

Subject
GRB 060912, Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2006-09-12T18:45:57Z (18 years ago)
From
Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>
A. Parsons (GSFC), L. Barbier (GSFC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
J. Cummings (GSFC/UMD), E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC),
D. Hullinger (BYU-Idaho), C. P. Hurkett (U Leicester), H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA),
C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD), J. Norris (GSFC), D. Palmer (LANL),
T. Sakamoto (GSFC/ORAU), G. Sato (GSFC/ISAS), M. Stamatikos (GSFC/ORAU),
J. Tueller (GSFC)
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:
 
Using the data set from T-120 to T+183 sec from recent telemetry downlinks,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 060912 (trigger #229185)
(Hurkett, et al., GCN Circ. 5558).  The BAT ground-calculated position
is RA,Dec = 5.286,+20.971 deg {0h 21m 8.7s,+20d 58' 16.3"} (J2000)
+- 0.9 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).  The partial coding was 33%.
 
The mask-weighted lightcurve has a single peak with a faster rise than decay.
T90 (15-350 keV) is 5.0 +- 0.5 sec (estimated error including systematics).
 
The time-averaged spectrum from T-0.6 to T+6.1 is best fit by a simple
power-law model.  The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is
1.74 +- 0.09.  The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 1.3 +- 0.1 x 10^-6 erg/cm2.
The 1-sec peak photon flux measured from T-0.02 sec in the 15-150 keV
band is 8.5 +- 0.4 ph/cm2/sec.  All the quoted errors are at the 90%
confidence level. 

The spectral lag calculation (Norris & Bonnell, ApJ, 2006) shows this
burst to be clearly in the long-burst class.  The lag is 190 +28 -40 ms
between the 15-25 and 50-100 keV bands and 83 +43 -43 ms
between the 25-50 and 100-350 bands.
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