TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 19733 SUBJECT: Konus-Wind observation of short GRB 160726A DATE: 16/07/26 14:14:21 GMT FROM: Dmitry Frederiks at Ioffe Institute D. Frederiks, S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, P. Oleynik, M. Ulanov, D. Svinkin, A. Tsvetkova, A.Lysenko, A. Kozlova, and T. Cline, on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report: The short GRB 160726A (Swift/BAT detection: Starling et al., GCN 19731; Fermi GBM observation: Hamburg et al., GCN 19732) triggered Konus-Wind at T0=5645.315 s UT (01:34:05.315). The light curve shows a short pulse with a total duration is ~0.2 s. The emission is seen up to ~2 MeV. As observed by Konus-Wind, the burst had a fluence of (1.5 ± 0.5)x10^-6 erg/cm2 and a 16-ms peak energy flux, measured from T0+0.016, of (1.1 ± 0.3)x10^-5 erg/cm2 (both in the 20 keV - 10 MeV energy range). The spectrum of the burst (measured from T0 to T0+0.128 s) is best fit in the 20 keV - 2 MeV range by a cutoff power-law (CPL) function with the following model parameters: the photon index alpha = -0.65(-0.47,+0.71), and the peak energy Ep = 424(-163,+389) keV, chi2 = 19.5/20 dof. Fitting this spectrum with the GRB (Band) function yields the same alpha and Ep with only an upper limit on beta of -1.8, chi2 = 19.5/19 dof. The Konus-Wind light curve of this GRB is available at http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB160726_T05645/ All the quoted errors are estimated at the 90% confidence level. All the presented results are preliminary.