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GRB 120919B

GCN Circular 13788

Subject
IPN Triangulation of long GRB 120919B
Date
2012-09-20T15:35:40Z (13 years ago)
From
Valentin Pal'shin at Ioffe Inst <val@mail.ioffe.ru>
K. Hurley on behalf of the Mars Odyssey and MESSENGER GRB teams,

J. Goldsten, on behalf of the MESSENGER GRNS GRB team,

I. G. Mitrofanov, D. Golovin, M. L. Litvak, and A. B. Sanin,
on behalf of the HEND-Odyssey GRB team,

S. Golenetskii, R. Aptekar, E. Mazets, V. Pal'shin, D. Frederiks,
D. Svinkin, and T. Cline on behalf of the Konus-Wind team,

W. Boynton, C. Fellows, K. Harshman, H. Enos, and R. Starr, on
behalf of the GRS-Odyssey GRB team,

V. Connaughton, M. Briggs, and C. Meegan, on behalf of the Fermi
GBM team, and

A. von Kienlin, X. Zhang, A. Rau, V. Savchenko, E. Bozzo, and C.
Ferrigno, on behalf of the INTEGRAL SPI-ACS GRB team, report:

The long-duration, moderately intense GRB 120919B was observed by Fermi
(GBM: trigger 369710066), Konus-Wind, MESSENGER (GRNS), INTEGRAL
(SPI-ACS), and Mars Odyssey (HEND) at about 4463 s UT (01:14:23).

We have triangulated it to a preliminary, 3 sigma error box whose
coordinates are:
   ---------------------------------------------
    RA(2000), deg                 Dec(2000), deg
   ---------------------------------------------
   Center:
    302.633 (20h 10m 32s) -37.490 (-37d 29' 25")
   Corners:
    302.735 (20h 10m 56s) -37.483 (-37d 28' 59")
    302.857 (20h 11m 26s) -38.235 (-38d 14' 04")
    302.530 (20h 10m 07s) -37.497 (-37d 29' 50")
    302.401 (20h 09m 36s) -36.706 (-36d 42' 21")
   ---------------------------------------------
The error box area is 457  sq. arcmin, and its maximum
dimension is 1.57 deg (the minimum one is 10 arcmin).

This box can be improved.

GCN Circular 13789

Subject
Konus-Wind observation of GRB 120919B
Date
2012-09-20T15:52:27Z (13 years ago)
From
Dmitry Frederiks at Ioffe Institute <fred@mail.ioffe.ru>
S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, D. Frederiks, E. Mazets, V. Pal'shin,
P. Oleynik, M. Ulanov, D. Svinkin, and T. Cline on behalf
of the Konus-Wind team, report:

The long-duration, moderately intense GRB 120919B
(IPN detection and localization: Hurley et al., GCN 13788)
triggered Konus-Wind at T0=04499.597s UT (01:14:59.401)

The light curve shows multiple pulses in the time interval
starting at ~T0-30s and ending at ~T0+100s.
The emission in the main bursting episode is seen up to 8 MeV.

The Konus-Wind light curve of this GRB is available at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB120919_T04499/

As observed by Konus-Wind, the burst
had a fluence of 3.1(-0.5,+0.7)x10-5 erg/cm2,
and a 256-ms peak flux, measured from T0+13.056 s,
of 4.3(-0.9,+1.1)x10-6 erg/cm2/s
(both in the 20 keV - 10 MeV energy range).

The time-integrated spectrum (measured from T0 to T0+98.560 s)
is best fit in the 20 keV - 10 MeV range
by the GRB (Band) function with the following model parameters:
the low-energy photon index alpha = -0.9 (-0.4, +0.5),
the high energy photon index beta = -2.3 (-2.7, +0.3),
the peak energy Ep = 250(-60, +190) keV,
chi2 = 86.9/83 dof.

The spectrum of the main bursting episode (measured from T0 to T0+16.640 s)
is best fit in the 20 keV - 10 MeV range
by the GRB (Band) function with the following model parameters:
the low-energy photon index alpha = -1.0 (-0.2, +0.2),
the high energy photon index beta = -2.4 (-1.0, +0.3),
the peak energy Ep = 300(-70, +85) keV,
chi2 = 76.3/83 dof.

All the quoted results are preliminary.
All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level.

GCN Circular 13792

Subject
GRB 120919B: MASTER prompt optical observations
Date
2012-09-21T13:54:00Z (13 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <gcncirc@observ.inetcomm.ru>
H. Levato and C. Saffe
Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio (ICATE)

C. Mallamaci, C. Lopez and F. Podest
Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar (OAFA)

E. Gorbovskoy, V. Lipunov,  V. Kornilov, D. Denisenko, A. Kuznetsov,
D. Kuvshinov, A. Belinski, N. Tyurina, N. Shatskiy, P. Balanutsa, D. Zimnukhov,
V.V. Chazov
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Sternberg Astronomical Institute

A. Tlatov, A.V. Parhomenko, D. Dormidontov, V. Sennik
Kislovodsk Solar Station of the Pulkovo Observatory

K. Ivanov, S. Yazev, N.M. Budnev, O. Gres, O. Chuvalaev, V.A. Poleshchuk
Irkutsk State University

V. Yurkov, Yu. Sergienko, D. Varda, E. Sinyakov
Blagoveschensk Educational State University, Blagoveschensk

V. Krushinski, I. Zalozhnich,  A. Popov, A. Bourdanov
Ural Federal University


MASTER-ICATE robotic Very Wide Field Cameras (FOV=2x384 square degrees,
D=72mm, f/1.2, 1 pix = 22 arcsec, http://observ.pereplet.ru) located in
Argentina (Observatorio Astronomico Felix Aguilar,
http://93.180.27.230:8080/) were pointed to the GRB120919B by FERMI 
369710066 trigger   30 s after notice time and 55 s after GRB time at 
2012-09-19 01:15:18 UT.
We cover full IPN-triangulations error-box (K. Hurley et. al. GCN13788)
We haven`t found  optical transient  within IPN-triangulations error-box
   our first (5 s exposure) set and on coadd image with complete exposure
of 45 seconds durnig gamma-burst activity (Golenetskii et al., GCN 13789).

The 5-sigma upper limit on single image has  been about 11.7 mag and 12.5 
mag on coadded image.

Also, we are marginaly see ~2 sigma OT at position Ra 20:10:26.40 Dec 
+37:31:48.00 with magnitude 12.5+-0.5m .

The coverage map and OT image available here 
http://master.sai.msu.ru/static/GRB/GRB120919B_2x2deg.png

Our cameras are continuously imaging the sky with 5 sec exposures.

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