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GRB 130521B

GCN Circular 14696

Subject
IPN Triangulation of GRB 130521B
Date
2013-05-22T22:36:40Z (12 years ago)
From
Valentin Pal'shin at Ioffe Inst <val@mail.ioffe.ru>
K. Hurley, I. G. Mitrofanov, D. Golovin, M. L. Litvak, and A. B. Sanin,
on behalf of the HEND-Odyssey GRB team,

S. Golenetskii, R. Aptekar, E. Mazets, V. Pal'shin, D. Frederiks,
D. Svinkin, and T. Cline on behalf of the Konus-Wind team,

J. Goldsten, on behalf of the MESSENGER NS GRB team,

W. Boynton, C. Fellows, K. Harshman, H. Enos, and R. Starr, on
behalf of the GRS-Odyssey GRB team, and

K. Yamaoka, M. Ohno, Y. Hanabata, Y. Fukazawa, T. Takahashi, M. Tashiro,
Y. Terada, T. Murakami, and K. Makishima on behalf of the Suzaku WAM 
team, report:

The long-duration, moderately intense GRB 130521B has been observed by 
Konus-Wind, Suzaku (WAM), MESSENGER (GRNS), and Mars Odyssey (HEND), so 
far, at about 77073 s UT (21:24:33).

We have triangulated it to a preliminary, 3 sigma error box whose 
coordinates are:
  ---------------------------------------------
   RA(2000), deg                 Dec(2000), deg
  ---------------------------------------------
  Center:
   281.641 (18h 46m 34s) +22.723 (+22d 43' 21")
  Corners:
   281.980 (18h 47m 55s) +22.385 (+22d 23' 05")
   281.618 (18h 46m 28s) +22.858 (+22d 51' 30")
   281.300 (18h 45m 12s) +23.057 (+23d 03' 24")
   281.663 (18h 46m 39s) +22.587 (+22d 35' 13")
  ---------------------------------------------
The error box area is 257 sq. arcmin, and its maximum
dimension is 55 arcmin (the minimum one is 3.7 arcmin). The Sun distance 
was 120 deg.

This box can be improved.

The time history and spectrum will be given in a forthcoming GCN Circular.

GCN Circular 14698

Subject
Konus-Wind observation of GRB 130521B
Date
2013-05-23T08:30:43Z (12 years ago)
From
Dmitry Frederiks at Ioffe Institute <fred@mail.ioffe.ru>
S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, D. Frederiks, E. Mazets, V. Pal'shin,
P. Oleynik, M. Ulanov, D. Svinkin, and T. Cline on behalf
of the Konus-Wind team, report:

The long-duration GRB 130521B
(IPN triangulation: Hurley at al., GCN 14696)
triggered Konus-Wind at T0=77073.510s UT (21:24:33.510).

The light curve shows several pulses from ~T0 s to ~T0+20s,
which, at its initial phase, form a quasi-periodic structure
with the period of ~2.5s.
The emission is seen up to ~7 MeV.

The Konus-Wind light curve of this GRB is available at
http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB130521_77073/

As observed by Konus-Wind, the burst
had a fluence of (1.9 � 0.15)x10-5 erg/cm2,
and a 64-ms peak flux, measured from T0+0.512s,
of (4.3 � 0.3)x10-6 erg/cm2/s
(both in the 20 keV - 10 MeV energy range).

The time-integrated spectrum (measured from T0 to T0+22.016 s)
is best fit in the 20 keV - 15 MeV range
by the GRB (Band) function with the following model parameters:
the low-energy photon index alpha = -0.96 � 0.07,
the high energy photon index beta = -2.9 � 0.3,
the peak energy Ep = 151 � 9 keV,
chi2 = 97.6/97 dof.

The spectrum at the maximum count rate
(measured from T0 to T0+5.888 s)
is best fit in the 20 keV - 15 MeV range
by the GRB (Band) function with the following model parameters:
the low-energy photon index alpha = -0.69 � 0.08,
the high energy photon index beta = -3.6 � 1.1,
the peak energy Ep = 205 � 12 keV,
chi2 = 107/97 dof.

For both spectra, we note a hint of counts excess
over the model flux in the spectral channels around ~10 MeV.

All the quoted results are preliminary.

GCN Circular 14700

Subject
GRB 130521B: Suzaku WAM observation of the prompt emission
Date
2013-05-24T13:36:21Z (12 years ago)
From
Masanori Ohno at Hiroshima U <ohno@hep01.hepl.hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
W. Iwakiri(RIKEN), M. Tashiro, Y. Terada, T. Yasuda, Y. Ishida, H. Ueno,
S. Sugimoto (Saitama U.),
M. Ohno, K. Takaki, T. Kawano, R. Nakamura, S. Furui, Y. Fukazawa
(Hiroshima U.),
M. Yamauchi, N. Ohmori, M. Akiyama (Univ. of Miyazaki),
K. Yamaoka (Nagoya U.), S. Sugita (Ehime U.), Y. E. Nakagawa, M. Kokubun,
T. Takahashi (ISAS/JAXA), Y. Hanabata (ICRR),
Y. Urata (NCU), K. Nakazawa, K. Makishima (Univ. of Tokyo)
on behalf of the Suzaku WAM team, report:

The long, IPN localized GRB 130521B (Hurley et al., GCN 14696;
Konus-Wind detection : Golenetskii et al., GCN 14698) triggered the
Suzaku Wide-band All-sky Monitor (WAM) which covers an energy range of
50 keV - 5 MeV at 21:24:31.599 UT (=T0).

The observed light curve shows a multi-peaked structure starting at
T0-0s, ending at T0+25 s with a duration (T90) of about 23 seconds. The
fluence in 100 - 1000 keV was 1.21 (+0.07/-0.08) x 10^-5 erg/cm^2. The
1-s peak flux measured from T0+1 s was 4.25 (+1.63/-0.54) photons/cm^2/s
in the same energy range.

Preliminary result shows that the time-averaged spectrum from T0-0s to
T0+25 s is well fitted by a single power-law with a photon index of 2.33
(+0.19/-0.16) (chi^2/d.o.f = 30.0/25).

All the quoted errors are at statistical 90% confidence level,in which
the systematic uncertainties are not included.

The light curves for this burst are available at:

http://www.astro.isas.jaxa.jp/suzaku/HXD-WAM/WAM-GRB/grb/trig/grb_table.html

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