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GCN Circular 30124

Subject
SGR J1555.2-5402: Swift-BAT refined analysis
Date
2021-06-04T15:58:06Z (4 years ago)
From
Amy Lien at GSFC <amy.y.lien@nasa.gov>
T. N. Ukwatta (LANL), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC),
J. R. Cummings (CPI), H. A. Krimm (NSF),
S. Laha (GSFC/UMBC), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC),
C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL),
T. Sakamoto (AGU), M. Stamatikos (OSU),
(i.e. the Swift-BAT team):

Using the data set from T-240 to T+100 sec from the recent telemetry
downlink,
we report further analysis of SGR J1555.2-5402 (trigger #1053220)
(Palmer et al., GCN Circ. 30120Loading...
 
 ).  The BAT ground-calculated position is
RA, Dec = 238.782, -54.065 deg which is
   RA(J2000)  =  15h 55m 07.6s
   Dec(J2000) = -54d 03' 55.6"
with an uncertainty of 2.2 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment).
The partial coding was 89%.

The 1-ms binned mask-weighted light curve shows a multi-peaked structure
that starts at ~T-0.003 s and ends at ~T+0.008 s. The two peaks occur at
~T+0.003 s and ~T+0.006 s, respectively. T90 (15-350 keV) estimated from
the 1-ms binned light curve is 0.011 +- 0.003 sec (estimated error
including
systematics).

The time-averaged spectrum from T+0.00 to T+0.008 sec can be fitted by
a simple power-law model.  The power law index of the time-averaged
spectrum is 2.45 +- 0.31 (chi squared 25.37 for 57 d.o.f.).
The fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 9.5 +- 2.0 x 10^-9 erg/cm2.

A single blackbody fit to the time-averaged spectrum shows the blackbody
temperature of 6.9 +- 1.2 keV (chi squared 23.26 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/1053220/BA/