GCN Circular 5688
Subject
GRB 060928: Suzaku/WAM observation of the prompt emission
Date
2006-10-04T16:59:22Z (18 years ago)
From
Masanori Ohno at Hiroshima U <ohno@hirax7.hepl.hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
M. Ohno, T. Takahashi, T. Asano, T. Uehara, Y. Fukazawa (Hiroshima U.),
M. Suzuki, Y. Terada, T. Tamagawa (RIKEN),
K. Yamaoka, S. Sugita (Aoyama Gakuin U.),
M. Tashiro, K. Abe, K. Onda, Y. Sato, M. Suzuki, Y. Urata (Saitama U.),
T. Enoto, R. Miyawaki, K. Kokubun, K. Makishima (Univ. of Tokyo),
K. Nakazawa, T. Takahashi (ISAS/JAXA), S. Hong (Nihon U.),
on behalf of the Suzaku WAM team report:
The bright, long burst, GRB 060928 (Hurley et al., GCN 5684),
triggered the Suzaku Wideband All-sky Monitor (WAM), which covers
the energy range of 50 keV - 5 MeV, at 01:17:01.74 (UT).
Two distinct strong bursts were seen in the light curve observed
with the WAM. The duration of the first and second burst was
about 14 seconds and 70 seconds, respectively. These two bursts
were separated by about 200 seconds.
Here we report the analysis result only for the first burst.
The fluence in 100 - 1000 keV was 2.18(-0.11, +0.11)x10-5 erg/cm2,
while the 1-s peak flux was 9.75(-0.47, +0.51) photons/cm2/s in the
same energy range.
Preliminary result shows that the time-averaged spectrum is
well described by a power law with an exponential
cutoff as follows.
dN/dE ~ E^{-alpha} * exp(-(2-alpha)*E/Epeak)
alpha 1.18 (-0.18, +0.17), and
Epeak 580 (-70, +112) keV.
All the quoted errors are at statistical 90% confidence level,
while systematic errors are not included.
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