TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 13120 SUBJECT: GRB 120326A: Swift-BAT refined analysis DATE: 12/03/26 18:04:01 GMT FROM: Scott Barthelmy at NASA/GSFC S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), T. Sakamoto (GSFC/UMBC), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), W. H. Baumgartner (GSFC/UMBC), J. R. Cummings (GSFC/UMBC), E. E. Fenimore (LANL), N. Gehrels (GSFC), H. A. Krimm (GSFC/USRA), D. M. Palmer (LANL), G. Sato (ISAS), M. H. Siegel (PSU), M. Stamatikos (OSU), J. Tueller (GSFC), T. N. Ukwatta (MSU) (i.e. the Swift-BAT team): Using the data set from T-239 to T+963 sec from the recent telemetry downlink, we report further analysis of BAT GRB 120326A (trigger #518626) (Siegel, et al., GCN Circ. 13105). The BAT ground-calculated position is RA, Dec = 273.906, 69.248 deg, which is RA(J2000) = 18h 15m 37.3s Dec(J2000) = +69d 14' 54.4" with an uncertainty of 1.0 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment). The partial coding was 91%. The mask-weighted light curve shows a possible (2-sigma) precursor peak at ~T-105 sec, and two definite precursor peaks (~30 sec wide each) at ~T-60 sec and ~T-25 sec. The main FRED peak starts T_0, peaks at ~T+4 sec, and returns to background at ~T+20 sec. T90 (15-350 keV) is 69.6 +- 8.3 sec (estimated error including systematics). The time-averaged spectrum from T-67.90 to T+22.56 sec is best fit by a power law with an exponential cutoff. This fit gives a photon index 1.41 +- 0.34, and Epeak of 41.1 +- 6.9 keV (chi squared 55.8 for 56 d.o.f.). For this model the total fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 2.6 +- 0.3 x 10^-6 erg/cm2 and the 1-sec peak flux measured from T+3.59 sec in the 15-150 keV band is 4.6 +- 0.2 ph/cm2/sec. A fit to a simple power law gives a photon index of 2.06 +- 0.07 (chi squared 68.4 for 57 d.o.f.). All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level. The results of the batgrbproduct analysis are available at http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/notices_s/518626/BA/