GCN Circular 8802
Subject
GRB 090109: Fermi GBM detection
Date
2009-01-12T22:30:25Z (16 years ago)
From
Elisabetta Bissaldi at MPE <ebs@mpe.mpg.de>
E. Bissaldi(MPE) and A. von Kienlin (MPE)
report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:
"At 07:58:29.49 UT on Day Month Year, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
triggered and located GRB 090109 (trigger 253180711 / 090109332).
The on-ground calculated location, using the GBM trigger
data, is RA = 122.8, DEC = +54.8 (J2000 degrees,
equivalent to 08h 11m, 54d 48'), with an uncertainty
of 12.5 degrees (radius, 1-sigma containment,
statistical only; there is additionally a systematic
error which is currently estimated to be 2 to 3 degrees).
The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is 62 degrees.
This weak GRB consists of a single peak
with a duration (T90) of about 5 s (8-1000 keV).
The time-averaged spectrum from T0-2.8 s to T0+1.3 s is
well fit by a simple power law function with
index -1.50 +/- 0.08 (chi squared 236 for 241 d.o.f.).
The event fluence (8-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(1.21 +/- 0.05)E-06 erg/cm^2. The 1.3-sec peak photon flux measured
starting from T0 in the 8-1000 keV band
is 2.76 +/- 0.16 ph/s/cm^2.
The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary;
final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog."