GCN Circular 7081
Subject
GRB 071112C: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2007-11-13T19:49:40Z (17 years ago)
From
Jay R. Cummings at NASA/GSFC/Swift <jayc@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>
H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), L. Barbier (GSFC), S. Barthelmy (GSFC),
J. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC), E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC),
D. Hullinger (BYU-Idaho), M. Koss (GSFC/UMD), C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD),
D. Palmer (LANL), A. Parsons (GSFC), T. Sakamoto (GSFC/ORAU),
G. Sato (GSFC/ISAS), M. Stamatikos (GSFC/ORAU), G. Stratta (ASDC),
J. Tueller (GSFC), on behalf of the Swift-BAT team:
Using a partial data set from T-122 to T+10 sec from the recent telemetry
downlink, we report further analysis of BAT GRB 071112C (trigger #296504)
(Stratta, et al., GCN Circ. 7059). Because of the unusually short time
between detection of GRB 071112B (Perri, et al., GCN Circ. 7058) and
this burst, we have only a partial data set. This analysis is based on
BAT survey data rather than "event" data. No event data were created for
this burst. In particular, the fluence quoted below does not include the
tail of the peak, though it appears to include about 80% of the total
fluence. The T90 period and our estimate of the 1-second peak photon
flux are a little more uncertain than usual as well, and the quoted
errors have been increased to reflect this.
The BAT ground-calculated position is (RA,Dec) = 39.218 +28.368
{02h 36m 52.3s,+28d 22' 04"} [deg; J2000] +- 1.0 arcmin, (radius,
sys+stat, 90% containment). The burst was in the fully-coded field of
view.
The burst consisted of a single FRED peak. T90 (15-350 keV) is
(15 +- 2) sec (estimated error including systematics).
The power law index of the time-averaged spectrum is 1.09 +- 0.07.
The fluence for the period T-122 to T+10 seconds (including about
80% of the total fluence) in the 15-150 keV band is
(3.0 +- 0.4) x 10^-6 erg/cm2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured
from T+0 sec in the 15-150 keV band is 8 +- 1 ph/cm2/sec. All the
quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level.