TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 17260 SUBJECT: Konus-Wind observation of GRB 141229A DATE: 14/12/31 12:06:31 GMT FROM: Dmitry Svinkin at Ioffe Institute S. Golenetskii, R. Aptekar, D. Frederiks, V. Pal'shin, P. Oleynik, M. Ulanov, D. Svinkin, A. Tsvetkova, A. Lysenko, and T. Cline on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report: The long-duration GRB 141229A (MAXI/GSC detection: Fujita et al., GCN Circ. 17246; Fermi-GBM observation: Roberts, GCN Circ. 17249; Swift-BAT observation: Cummings, GCN Circ. 17256) triggered Konus-Wind at T0=42542.652 s UT (11:49:02.652). The burst light curve shows a single pulse with a duration of ~7.6 s. The emission is seen up to ~10 MeV. The Konus-Wind light curve of this GRB is available at http://www.ioffe.ru/LEA/GRBs/GRB141229_T42542/ As observed by Konus-Wind, the burst had a fluence of 4.7(-0.6,+0.8)x10^-6 erg/cm2, and a 64-ms peak flux, measured from T0+0.064 s, of 4.6(-1.3,+1.3)x10^-6 erg/cm2/s (both in the 20 keV - 10 MeV energy range). The time-averaged spectrum of the burst (measured from T0 to T0+8.448 s) is best fit in the 20 keV - 10 MeV range by a power law with exponential cutoff model: dN/dE ~ (E^alpha)*exp(-E*(2+alpha)/Ep) with alpha = -1.03 (-0.22,+0.25) and Ep = 254 (-51,+86) keV (chi2 = 82/97 dof). Fitting by a GRB (Band) model yields the same alpha and Ep, and an upper limit on the high energy photon index: beta < -2.3 (chi2 = 82/96 dof) The spectrum near the maximum count rate (measured from T0+0.000 to T0+0.256 s) is best fit in the 20 keV - 10 MeV range by a power law with exponential cutoff model: dN/dE ~ (E^alpha)*exp(-E*(2+alpha)/Ep) with alpha = 0.3 (-0.5,+0.7) and Ep = 407 (-71,+101) keV (chi2 = 35/36 dof). Fitting by a GRB (Band) model yields the same alpha and Ep, and an upper limit on the high energy photon index: beta < -2.4 (chi2 = 35/35 dof) All the quoted errors are at the 90% confidence level. All the quoted values are preliminary.