GCN Circular 15591
Subject
GRB 131209A: Fermi GBM observation
Date
2013-12-11T12:21:13Z (11 years ago)
From
Andreas von Kienlin at MPE <azk@mpe.mpg.de>
A. von Kienlin (MPE) and C. Meegan (UAH)
report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team:
"At 13:07:56.97 UT on 09 December 2013, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor
triggered and located GRB 131209A (trigger 408287279 / 131209547),
which was also detected by the Fermi/LAT(Vianello et al. 2013, GCN 15587),
Konus-Wind (Golenetskii et al. 2013, GCN 15589) and INTEGRAL SPI-ACS.
The GBM on-ground location is consistent with the error box derived by
the intersection of the IPN annulus with the Fermi-LAT 1 sigma
error circle (Hurley et al. 2013, GCN 15588).
The GBM light curve shows a structured pulse
with a duration (T90) of about 14 s (50-300 keV).
The time-averaged spectrum from T0-2.560 s to T0+19.968 s is
best fit by a power law function with an exponential
high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -0.46 (+0.04/-0.04) and
the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 287 (+12/-11)keV
The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is
(1.44 +/- 0.03)E-05 erg/cm^2. The 1.024-sec peak photon flux measured
starting from T0+11.328 s in the 10-1000 keV band
is 8.0 +/- 0.3 ph/s/cm^2.
A Band function fits the spectrum equally well with Epeak= 267 (+17/-14)
keV,
alpha = -0.41 (+0.06/-0.05) and beta = -2.79 (+0.24/-0.61).
The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary;
final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog."