GRB 160612A

E. Burns (UAH), C. Meegan (UAH), and P. Jenke (UAH)
report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:

"At 20:12:47.55 UT on 12 June 2016, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
triggered and located GRB 160612A (trigger 487455171 / 160612842).

The on-ground calculated location, using the GBM trigger
data, is RA = 350, DEC = -37 with an uncertainty
of 3 degrees (radius, 1-sigma containment,
statistical only; there is additionally a systematic
error which we have characterized as a core-plus-tail model, with 90% of
GRBs having a 3.7 deg error and a small tail suffering a larger than 10 deg
systematic error. [Connaughton et al. 2015, ApJS, 216, 32] ).

The trigger resulted in an Autonomous Repoint Request (ARR)
by the GBM Flight Software owing to the high peak flux
of the GRB. This ARR was accepted and the spacecraft slewed to the GBM
in-flight
location. The initial angle from the Fermi LAT boresight to
the GBM ground location is 26 degrees.

The GBM light curve consists of a single peak
with a duration (T90) of about 0.4 s (50-300 keV).
The time-averaged spectrum from T0-0.256 s to T0+0.192 s is
best fit by a power law function with an exponential
high-energy cutoff.  The power law index is -0.7 +/- 0.1 and
the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 1148 +/- 291 keV

The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(9.8 +/- 0.7)E-07 erg/cm^2. The 0.256-sec peak photon flux measured
starting from T0-0.064 s in the 10-1000 keV band
is 8.6 +/- 0.5 ph/s/cm^2.

The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary;
final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog."

A. Kozlova, S. Golenetskii, R. Aptekar, D. Frederiks, D. Svinkin,
and T. Cline on behalf of the Konus-Wind team,

K. Hurley, on behalf of the IPN,

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

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

S. Barthelmy, J. Cummings, N. Gehrels, H. Krimm, and D. Palmer,
on behalf of the Swift-BAT team, report:

The short-duration GRB 160612A (Burns et al., GCN Circ. 19531
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detected by Fermi (GBM), Konus-Wind, INTEGRAL (SPI-ACS), and Swift (BAT),
so far, at about 72768 s UT (20:12:48). The burst was outside the coded
field of view of the BAT.

We have triangulated it to a preliminary, 3 sigma error box whose
coordinates are:
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  RA(2000), deg                 Dec(2000), deg
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 Center:
  348.342 (23h 13m 22s) -25.181 (-25d 10' 51")
 Corners:
  348.982 (23h 15m 56s) -27.398 (-27d 23' 52")
  349.501 (23h 18m 00s) -27.279 (-27d 16' 45")
  347.719 (23h 10m 52s) -22.963 (-22d 57' 45")
  347.216 (23h 08m 52s) -23.074 (-23d 04' 27")
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The error box area is 2.18 sq. deg, and its maximum
dimension is 4.7 deg (the minimum one is 28 arcmin).
The Sun distance was about 102 deg.

This box may be improved.

A triangulation map is posted at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB160612_T72767/IPN/

The Konus-Wind time history and spectrum will be given in a forthcoming
GCN Circular.

P. A. Evans (U. Leicester) reports on behalf of the Swift team:

Swift has initiated a ToO observation of the Swift/BAT GRB 160612A. 
Automated analysis of the XRT data will be presented online at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/ToO_GRBs/00020665

Any uncatalogued X-ray sources detected in this analysis will be
reported on this website and via GCN COUNTERPART notices. These are
not necessarily related to the Swift/BAT event. Any X-ray source
considered to be a probable afterglow candidate will be reported via a 
GCN Circular after manual consideration.

Details of the XRT automated analysis methods are detailed in Evans et
al. (2007, A&A, 469, 379; 2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177 and 2014, ApJS, 210, 8).

This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.

A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC) and D. M. Palmer (LANL) 
report on behalf of the Swift Team:

At 20:12:48 UT on 2016-06-12, a number of gamma ray instruments, including
Swift-BAT, detected the short-hard GRB 160612A (Burns et al., GCN Circ. 19531
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BAT was slewing to a pre-planned target at that time, so it did not immediately
trigger.  However, ground analysis of the slew data reveals the GRB location
of RA, dec = 348.364, -25.375 which is
 RA(J2000) = 23h 13m 27s
 dec(J2000) = -25d 22' 30"
with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including 
systematic uncertainty).  This position is consistent with the IPN error box 
(Kozlova, GCN Circ 19535
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 ).  The lightcurve shows a short, complex peak
with a duration of T90 = 0.25 seconds and a peak count rate of 
~18,000 counts/s (15-350 keV)..

The time-averaged spectrum over the T90 interval is best fit by a
simple power-law model, with a photon index of 0.74+/-0.17
and a fluence in the 15-150 keV band of 1.16 +/- 0.12 x 10^-7
erg/cm^2.  All quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level

Swift ToO observations are underway (GCN 19536
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L.M. McCauley (PSU), K.L. Page (U. Leicester), B. Mingo (U. Leicester),
A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), V. D'Elia (ASDC), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA),
A. Maselli  (INAF-IASFPA), J.A. Kennea (PSU), B. Sbarufatti
(INAF-OAB/PSU) and P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), S. R. Oates (U. Warwick)
report on behalf of the Swift-XRT and UVOT teams:

Swift-XRT has performed follow-up observations of the
Swift/BAT-detected burst GRB 160612A (Lien et al. GCN Circ. 19537
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collecting 985 s of Photon Counting (PC) mode data between T0+178.4 ks
and T0+179.4 ks. 

No X-ray sources have been detected inside or close to the Swift/BAT
error region. The 3-sigma upper limit in the field is 0.008 ct	s^-1,
corresponding to a 0.3-10 keV observed flux of 3.1e-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1
(assuming a typical GRB spectrum).

The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis of the XRT observations,
including a position-specific upper limit calculator, are available at
http://www.swift.ac.uk/ToO_GRBs/00020665.

The UVOT did not detect an afterglow within the BAT error circle, down
to a magnitude of > 20.87 with an exposure of 978s in the w2 filter.

This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT and UVOT teams.

A. Tsvetkova, S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, D. Frederiks, P. Oleynik,
M. Ulanov, D. Svinkin, A. Lysenko, A. Kozlova and T. Cline
on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report:

The short-duration, hard-spectrum GRB 160612A
(Fermi GBM detection: Burns, Meegan & Jenke, GCN 19531
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IPN triangulation: Kozlova et al., GCN 19535
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BAT detection and localization:  Lien & Palmer, GCN 19537
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triggered Konus-Wind at T0=72767.893 s UT (20:12:47.893).

The burst light curve shows a single pulse with a total duration of ~0.2 s.

As observed by Konus-Wind, the burst
had a fluence of 1.02(-0.13,+0.12)x10^-6 erg/cm2
and a 16-ms peak flux, measured from T0-0.074 s,
of 1.16(-0.26,+0.26)x10^-5 erg/cm2/s
(both in the 20 - 1000 keV energy range).

Since a major fraction of the burst counts was accumulated
before the trigger, the spectral analysis was performed using
the KW 3-channel light curve data.
Modeling the 3-channel time-integrated spectrum
(measured from T0-0.128 s to T0+0.064 s)
by the cutoff power law yields the following model parameters:
the photon index alpha=-0.54(-0.38,+0.53),
and the peak energy Ep=1.46(-0.62,+8.00) MeV.

The Konus-Wind light curve of this GRB is available at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB160612_T72767/

All the quoted errors are at the 68% confidence level.
All the quoted values are preliminary.