GCN Circular 27398
Subject
Konus-Wind observation of GRB 200311A
Date
2020-03-17T11:51:37Z (5 years ago)
From
Anna Ridnaia at Ioffe Institute <ridnaia@mail.ioffe.ru>
A. Ridnaia, S. Golenetskii, R. Aptekar, D. Frederiks,
M. Ulanov, D. Svinkin, A. Tsvetkova, A. Lysenko, and T. Cline
on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report:
The long-duration GRB 200311A
(Fermi-GBM detection: The Fermi GBM team, GCN Circ. 27363;
AGILE-MCAL detection: Ursi et al., GCN Circ. 27365;
AstroSat-CZTI detection: Gupta et al., GCN Circ. 27371;
IPN triangulation: Svinkin et al., GCN Circ. 27381)
triggered Konus-Wind at T0=54974.737 s UT (15:16:14.737).
The burst light curve shows a multipeaked structure
which starts at ~T0-0.8 s and has a total duration of ~65.2 s.
The emission is seen up to ~8 MeV.
As observed by Konus-Wind, the burst
had a fluence of 8.84(-0.76,+0.89)x10^-5 erg/cm2,
and a 64-ms peak flux, measured from T0+1.792 s,
of 1.56(-0.28,+0.28)x10^-5 erg/cm2/s
(both in the 20 keV - 10 MeV energy range).
The time-averaged spectrum of the burst
(measured from T0 to T0+64.512 s)
is best fit in the 20 keV - 8 MeV range
by a power law with exponential cutoff model:
dN/dE ~ (E^alpha)*exp(-E*(2+alpha)/Ep)
with alpha = -0.93(-0.07,+0.08)
and Ep = 854(-112,+142) keV (chi2 = 113/81 dof).
Fitting by a GRB (Band) model yields the same alpha and Ep,
and an upper limit on the high energy photon index: beta < -2.1
(chi2 = 112/80 dof).
The spectrum near the maximum count rate
(measured from T0+0.256 to T0+7.168 s)
is best fit in the 20 keV - 8 MeV range
by a power law with exponential cutoff model
with alpha = -0.57(-0.08,+0.09)
and Ep = 957(-98,+114) keV (chi2 = 88/80 dof).
Fitting by a GRB (Band) model yields the same alpha and Ep,
and an upper limit on the high energy photon index: beta < -2.2
(chi2 = 86/79 dof).
The Konus-Wind light curve of this GRB is available at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB200311_T54974/
All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level.
All the quoted values are preliminary.