GCN Circular 19799
Subject
GRB 160815A: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2016-08-16T14:26:01Z (9 years ago)
From
Takanori Sakamoto at AGU <tsakamoto@phys.aoyama.ac.jp>
A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. R. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC),
N. Gehrels (GSFC), H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC),
D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (AGU), M. Stamatikos (OSU), T. N. Ukwatta (LANL)
(i.e. the Swift-BAT team):
Using the data set from T-239 to T+963 sec from the recent telemetry downlink,
we report further analysis of BAT GRB 160815A (trigger #708598)
(Markwardt, et al., GCN Circ. 19794). The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 288.616, 84.298 deg which is
RA(J2000) = 19h 14m 27.8s
Dec(J2000) = +84d 17' 53.9"
with an uncertainty of 1.0 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 41%.
The mask-weighted light curve shows several overlapping peaks starting
at T-7 sec and ending at T+11 sec. Two main pulses peaks at T+0.3 sec
and T+2.5 sec. T90 (15-350 keV) is 8.6 +- 1.8 sec (estimated error
including systematics).
The time-averaged spectrum from T-6.41 to T+5.20 sec is best fit by a power law
with an exponential cutoff. This fit gives a photon index 0.96 +- 0.41,
and Epeak of 68 +- 16 keV (chi squared 48.11 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+2.14 sec in the 15-150 keV band is
4.7 +- 0.4 ph/cm2/sec. A fit to a simple power law gives a photon index
of 1.72 +- 0.09 (chi squared 59.91 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/708598/BA/