Status Report

GRB 051113: Swift-BAT detection of a burst

By SpaceRef Editor

November 14, 2005

Filed under Goddard Space Flight Center, Swift, US

TITLE: GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER: 4268
SUBJECT: GRB 051113: Swift-BAT detection of a burst
DATE: 05/11/13 15:46:45 GMT
FROM: Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC Scott@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov

S.T. Holland (GSFC/USRA), L. Barbier (GSFC), S. Barthelmy (GSFC), N. Gehrels (GSFC), S. Hunsberger (PSU), D. Palmer (LANL) on behalf of the Swift team:

At 15:22:35 UT, Swift-BAT triggered and located GRB 051113 (trigger=163765). The spacecraft did not slew to this burst because of the Sun-angle observing constraint; this burst is 39 deg from the Sun. The BAT on-board calculated location is RA,Dec 187.222d,-26.391d {12h 28m 53s,-26d 23′ 25″} (J2000), with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, stat+sys).

The BAT light curve shows a single peak with a total duration of ~10 sec. The peak count rate was ~1400 counts/sec (15-350 keV), at ~2 seconds after the trigger.

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