TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 17205 SUBJECT: GRB 141220A: Fermi GBM observation DATE: 14/12/21 04:24:48 GMT FROM: Hoi-Fung Yu at MPE H.-F. Yu (MPE) reports on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team: "At 06:02:52.49 UT on 20 Dec 2014, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor triggered and located GRB 141220A (trigger 141220252/ 141220252), which was also detected by Swift (Cummings et al. 2014, GCN 17196). The GBM on-ground location, using the Fermi GBM trigger data, is consistent with the Swift location. The trigger resulted in an Autonomous Repoint Request (ARR) that was accepted and the spacecraft slewed to the GBM in-flight location. The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is about 47 degrees. The GBM light curve consists of two main pulses with a duration (T90) of about 7.6 s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum from T0-1.920 s to T0+8.320 s is best fit by a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -0.80 +/- 0.05 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 180 +/- 9 keV. The event fluence (8-1000 keV) in this time interval is (5.23 +/- 0.15)E-06 erg/cm^2. The 1.024-sec peak photon flux measured starting from T0+0.128 s in the 8-1000 keV band is 12.0 +/- 0.3 ph/s/cm^2. The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary; final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog."