TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 27311 SUBJECT: GRB 200303A: Swift-BAT refined analysis DATE: 20/03/03 17:01:22 GMT FROM: Hans Krimm at NSF/NASA-GSFC D. M. Palmer (LANL), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), S. B. Cenko (GSFC), H. A. Krimm (NSF), S. Laha (GSFC/UMBC), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), T. Sakamoto (AGU), M. Stamatikos (OSU), T. N. Ukwatta (LANL) (i.e. the Swift-BAT team): Using the data set from T-240 to T+605 sec from the recent telemetry downlink, we report further analysis of BAT GRB 200303A (trigger #959431) (Cenko, et al., GCN Circ. 27297). The BAT ground-calculated position is RA, Dec = 212.695, 51.358 deg which is RA(J2000) = 14h 10m 46.9s Dec(J2000) = +51d 21' 29.3" with an uncertainty of 1.0 arcmin, (radius, sys+stat, 90% containment). The partial coding was 59%. The burst entered the BAT field of view around T-100 sec during a spacecraft slew. The mask-weighted light curve shows a single episode with multiple pulses, starting at T-45 sec, peaking at the trigger time and returning to near background by T+70 sec. There is extended low-level emission out to nearly T+200 sec. T90 (15-350 keV) is 94.2 +- 6.4 sec (estimated error including systematics). The time-averaged spectrum from T-36.55 to T+193.26 sec is best fit by a power law with an exponential cutoff. This fit gives a photon index 1.39 +- 0.17, and Epeak of 131.4 +- 75.1 keV (chi squared 46.32 for 56 d.o.f.). For this model the total fluence in the 15-150 keV band is 1.3 +- 0.0 x 10^-5 erg/cm2 and the 1-sec peak flux measured from T+0.34 sec in the 15-150 keV band is 5.0 +- 0.3 ph/cm2/sec. A fit to a simple power law gives a photon index of 1.65 +- 0.04 (chi squared 53.75 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/959431/BA/