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GCN Circular 8176

Subject

GRB 080903, Swift-BAT refined analysis

Event

GRB 080903

Date

2008-09-03T14:25:14Z (17 years ago)

From

Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC <scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov>

J. Tueller (GSFC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), W. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC),
J. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC), E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC),
D. Grupe (PSU), H. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), C. Markwardt (GSFC/UMD),
K. McLean (GSFC/UMD), D. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (GSFC/UMBC),
G. Sato (ISAS), M. Stamatikos (GSFC/ORAU), T. Ukwatta (GWU)
(i.e. the Swift-BAT team):
 
Using the data set from T-239 to T+723 sec from recent telemetry downlinks,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 080903 (trigger #323542)
(Grupe, et al., GCN Circ. 8169Loading...
 
 ).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 86.790, 51.256 deg, which is 
   RA(J2000)  =  05h 47m 09.6s 
   Dec(J2000) = +51d 15' 22.4" 
with an uncertainty of 1.0 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 100%.
 
The mask-weighted light curve shows a single FRED peak starting at ~T-5 sec
and ending at ~T+80 sec.  There appears to be very low level emission out
to ~T+500 sec.  T90 (15-350 keV) is 66 +- 11 sec (estimated error
including systematics).
 
The time-averaged spectrum from T-10.5 to T+68.0 sec is best fit by a power law
with an exponential cutoff.  This fit gives a photon index 0.84 +- 0.52, 
and Epeak of 60 +- 15 keV (chi squared 63 for 56 d.o.f.).  For this
model the total fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 1.4 +- 0.1 x 10^-6 erg/cm2
and the 1-sec peak flux measured from T-2.46 sec in the 15-150 keV band is
0.8 +- 0.1 ph/cm2/sec.  A fit to a simple power law gives a photon index
of 1.72 +- 0.10 (chi squared 73 for 57 d.o.f.).  All the quoted errors
are at the 90% confidence level. 
 
The results of the batgrbproduct analysis are available at
http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/notices_s/323542/BA/