GCN Circular 8684
Subject
GRB081215A: Fermi-LAT observations
Date
2008-12-19T17:34:59Z (16 years ago)
From
Julie McEnery at UMBC/GSFC <mcenery@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Julie McEnery (NASA/GSFC) reports on behalf of the Fermi LAT team
We report a detection by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) of
emission from GRB081215A (Preece et al, GCN8678).
This burst was at an angle of 86 degrees to the LAT boresight, which
means that neither directional nor energy information can be obtained
with the standard analysis procedures.
Using a non-standard data selection, over 100 counts above background
were detected within a 0.5 s interval in coincidence with the main GBM
peak. The significance of this excess was greater than 8 sigma. A
preliminary study of the instrument performance at such a large
inclination suggests that these events are likely to be low energy
gamma-rays, with energies less than 200 MeV.
Further analysis is ongoing.
The Fermi LAT point of contact for this burst is Julie McEnery
(julie.mcenery@nasa.gov).
The Fermi LAT is a pair conversion telescope designed to cover the
energy band from 20 MeV to greater than 300 GeV. It is the product of an
international collaboration between NASA and DOE in the U.S. and many
scientific institutions across France, Italy, Japan and Sweden.
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