//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 21822 SUBJECT: GRB 170906B: Swift detection of a burst DATE: 17/09/06 01:16:34 GMT FROM: David Burrows at PSU/Swift B. Sbarufatti (PSU), D. N. Burrows (PSU), J. R. Cummings (NASA/UMBC), C. Gronwall (PSU), J. A. Kennea (PSU), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC), M. H. Siegel (PSU) and A. Tohuvavohu (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift Team: At 00:55:46 UT, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered and located GRB 170906B (trigger=770958). Swift slewed immediately to the burst. The BAT on-board calculated location is RA, Dec 232.221, -28.251 which is RA(J2000) = 15h 28m 53s Dec(J2000) = -28d 15' 03.6" with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin (radius, 90% containment, including systematic uncertainty). The BAT light curve is not immediately available for an unknown reason. The XRT began observing the field at 00:57:04.2 UT, 78.5 seconds after the BAT trigger. Using promptly downlinked data we find an uncatalogued X-ray source with an enhanced position: RA, Dec 232.2037, -28.2563 which is equivalent to: RA(J2000) = 15h 28m 48.90s Dec(J2000) = -28d 15' 22.8" with an uncertainty of 2.2 arcseconds (radius, 90% containment). This location is 58 arcseconds from the BAT onboard position, within the BAT error circle. This position may be improved as more data are received; the latest position is available at http://www.swift.ac.uk/sper. A power-law fit to a spectrum formed from promptly downlinked event data gives a column density in excess of the Galactic value (1.69 x 10^21 cm^-2, Willingale et al. 2013), with an excess column of 1.1 (+1.25/-0.71) x 10^22 cm^-2 (90% confidence). UVOT took a finding chart exposure of 150 seconds with the White filter starting 80 seconds after the BAT trigger. No credible afterglow candidate has been found in the initial data products. The 2.7'x2.7' sub-image covers 100% of the XRT error circle. The typical 3-sigma upper limit has been about 19.6 mag. The 8'x8' region for the list of sources generated on-board covers 100% of the XRT error circle. The list of sources is typically complete to about 18 mag. No correction has been made for the expected extinction corresponding to E(B-V) of 0.42. Burst Advocate for this burst is B. Sbarufatti (boris.sbarufatti AT brera.inaf.it). Please contact the BA by email if you require additional information regarding Swift followup of this burst. In extremely urgent cases, after trying the Burst Advocate, you can contact the Swift PI by phone (see Swift TOO web site for information: http://www.swift.psu.edu/too.html.) //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 21823 SUBJECT: GRB 170906B: Enhanced Swift-XRT position DATE: 17/09/06 04:42:46 GMT FROM: Phil Evans at U of Leicester J.P. Osborne, A.P. Beardmore, P.A. Evans and M.R. Goad (U. Leicester) report on behalf of the Swift-XRT team. Using 824 s of XRT Photon Counting mode data and 1 UVOT images for GRB 170906B, we find an astrometrically corrected X-ray position (using the XRT-UVOT alignment and matching UVOT field sources to the USNO-B1 catalogue): RA, Dec = 232.20430, -28.25599 which is equivalent to: RA (J2000): 15h 28m 49.03s Dec (J2000): -28d 15' 21.6" with an uncertainty of 1.8 arcsec (radius, 90% confidence). This position may be improved as more data are received. The latest position can be viewed at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_positions. Position enhancement is described by Goad et al. (2007, A&A, 476, 1401) and Evans et al. (2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177). This circular was automatically generated, and is an official product of the Swift-XRT team. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 21840 SUBJECT: GRB 170906B: Fermi GBM detection DATE: 17/09/06 21:33:57 GMT FROM: Rachel Hamburg at UAH R. Hamburg (UAH) and and C. Meegan (UAH) report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team: "At 00:55:40.85 UT on 06 September 2017, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor triggered and located GRB 170906B (trigger 526352145 / 170906039). which was also detected by Swift (Sbarufatti et al. 2017, GCN 21822). The GBM on-ground location is consistent with the Swift position. The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight at the GBM trigger time is 53 degrees. The GBM light curve shows a two-peaked emission with a duration (T90) of about 12 s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum from T0-0.0 s to T0+12.8 s is well fit by a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -1.11 +/- 0.13 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 59 +/- 4 keV. The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (2.7 +/- 0.1)E-06 erg/cm^2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured starting from T0+5.1 s in the 10-1000 keV band is 10.3 +/- 0.4 ph/s/cm^2. The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary; final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog." //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 21841 SUBJECT: GRB 170906B: Swift-BAT refined analysis DATE: 17/09/07 01:21:12 GMT FROM: Amy Lien at GSFC H. A. Krimm (NSF/USRA), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), J. R. Cummings (CPI), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), C. B. Markwardt (GSFC), D. M. Palmer (LANL), T. Sakamoto (AGU), B. Sbarufatti (PSU), M. Stamatikos (OSU), T. N. Ukwatta (LANL) (i.e. the Swift-BAT team): Using the data set from the recent telemetry downlink, we report further analysis of BAT GRB 170906B (trigger #770958) (Sbarufatti et al., GCN Circ. 21822). Because this burst occurred only 755 s after the trigger time of GRB 170906A (trigger #770957), data collection was interrupted, and as such we do not have event-by-event data during the burst. Thus most of the usual BAT data products that we usually report in the "refined analysis circular" are not available. The BAT raw light curve shows roughly two overlapping pulses that start at ~T-11 s and ends at ~T+7 s. The two peaks occur at ~T-5 s and ~T0, respectively. The results of the BAT analysis are available at http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/notices_s/770958/BA/ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 21845 SUBJECT: GRB 170906B: Swift-XRT refined Analysis DATE: 17/09/07 13:44:59 GMT FROM: Boris Sbarufatti at INAF-OAB/IASFPA B. Sbarufatti (PSU) reports on behalf of the Swift-XRT team: We have analysed 831 s of XRT data for GRB 170906B (Sbarufatti et al. GCN Circ. 21822), from 63 s to 924 s after the BAT trigger. The data comprise 9 s in Windowed Timing (WT) mode (taken while Swift was slewing), with the remainder in Photon Counting (PC) mode. The enhanced XRT position for this burst was given by Osborne et al. (GCN Circ. 21823). The light curve can be modelled with a power-law decay with a decay index of alpha=0.63 (+0.13, -0.14). A spectrum formed from the PC mode data can be fitted with an absorbed power-law with a photon spectral index of 1.80 (+0.30, -0.27). The best-fitting absorption column is 7.5 (+2.8, -2.2) x 10^21 cm^-2, in excess of the Galactic value of 1.7 x 10^21 cm^-2 (Willingale et al. 2013). The counts to observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux conversion factor deduced from this spectrum is 5.0 x 10^-11 (7.8 x 10^-11) erg cm^-2 count^-1. A summary of the PC-mode spectrum is thus: Total column: 7.5 (+2.8, -2.2) x 10^21 cm^-2 Galactic foreground: 1.7 x 10^21 cm^-2 Excess significance: 4.3 sigma Photon index: 1.80 (+0.30, -0.27) If the light curve continues to decay with a power-law decay index of 0.63, the count rate at T+24 hours will be 0.033 count s^-1, corresponding to an observed (unabsorbed) 0.3-10 keV flux of 1.7 x 10^-12 (2.6 x 10^-12) erg cm^-2 s^-1. The results of the XRT-team automatic analysis are available at http://www.swift.ac.uk/xrt_products/00770958. This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 21846 SUBJECT: GRB 170906B: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits DATE: 17/09/07 15:06:30 GMT FROM: Mike Siegel at PSU/Swift MOC M. H. Siegel (PSU) and B. Sbarufatti (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team: The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 170906B 81 s after the BAT trigger (Sbarufatti et al., GCN Circ. 21822). No optical afterglow consistent with the XRT position (Osborne et al. GCN Circ. 21823) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures. Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system (Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the first finding chart (FC) exposure and subsequent exposures are: Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag white_FC 81 231 147 >20.2 u_FC 293 543 246 >19.3 white 81 930 243 >20.6 v 623 815 39 >17.5 b 548 741 39 >18.7 u 293 716 265 >19.3 w1 672 865 39 >18.4 The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.42 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).