GCN Circular 31101
Subject
GRB 211120B: Swift/BAT-GUANO detection outside the coded FOV
Date
2021-11-21T14:44:02Z (3 years ago)
From
Aaron Tohuvavohu at U Toronto <aaron.tohu@gmail.com>
James DeLaunay (UAlabama), Gayathri Raman (PSU), Aaron Tohuvavohu (U
Toronto), Jamie A. Kennea (PSU), report:
Swift/BAT did not successfully trigger on GRB 211120B (T0: 2021-11-20
13:09:46.8 UT, Fermi Trigger: 659106591).
The Fermi notice, distributed in near real-time, triggered the Swift
Mission Operations Center operated Gamma-ray Urgent Archiver for Novel
Opportunities (GUANO; Tohuvavohu et al. 2020, ApJ, 900, 1).
Upon trigger by this notice, GUANO sent a command to the Swift Burst
Alert Telescope (BAT) to save 200 seconds of BAT event-mode data from
[-50,+150] seconds around the time of the burst. All the requested
event mode data was delivered to the ground.
The BAT likelihood search, NITRATES (DeLaunay + Tohuvavohu,
arXiv:2111.01769), detects the burst with a sqrt(TS) of 23.1 in a
8.192 s analysis time bin.
The estimated T90 in the detector is 24.5 s (15-350 keV).
NITRATES prefers an origin for this burst coming from outside the
coded FOV, with DeltaLLHOut of -6.
See Section 9.1 and Figure 20 in the NITRATES paper for brief
descriptions and interpretation of sqrt(TS), DeltaLLHPeak, and
DeltaLLHOut.
An out of FOV origin is consistent with the Fermi/GBM localization.
GUANO is a fully autonomous, extremely low latency, spacecraft
commanding pipeline designed for targeted recovery of BAT event mode
data around the times of compelling astrophysical events to enable
more sensitive GRB searches.
A live reporting of Swift/BAT event data recovered by GUANO can be
found at: https://www.swift.psu.edu/guano/