TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 20975 SUBJECT: GRB 170403A: Fermi GBM observation DATE: 17/04/03 23:37:23 GMT FROM: Oliver J Roberts at USRA/NASA O.J. Roberts (USRA/NASA) and C. Meegan (UAH) report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team: "At 13:59:17.80 UT on the 3rd of April 2017, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor triggered and located GRB 170403A (trigger 512920762 / 170403583). The on-ground calculated location using the GBM trigger data is, RA = 267.08, DEC = +14.53 (J2000 degrees) with an uncertainty of 7.16 degrees (radius, 1-sigma containment, statistical only; there is additionally a systematic error which we have characterized as a core-plus-tail model, with 90% of GRBs having a 3.7 deg. error and a small tail suffering a larger than 10 deg. systematic error [Connaughton et al. 2015, ApJS, 216, 32]). The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight at the GBM trigger time is 88 degrees. The GBM light curve consists of a short, bright GRB with emission over a duration (T90) of about 1s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum from T0-0.096 s to T0+0.384 s is best fit by a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -1.01 +/- 0.14 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak is 470 +/- 163 keV. The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (3.9 +/- 0.2)E-07 erg/cm^2. The 64 ms peak photon flux measured starting from T0+0 s in the 10-1000 keV band is 16.6 +/- 1.5 ph/s/cm^2. The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary; final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog."