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GRB 051221B

Time: 20:03:20
Trigger Number: 173904
Burst Advocate: Padi Boyd

BAT Data:

RA: a 312.378
20:49:30.7
Dec: a 53.041
53:02:27.6
90% Error Radius: b 1.6
T90: c 39.900
Fluence: d 9.17 (1.04)
1s Peak Photon Flux: e 0.54 (0.20)
Photon Index: f 1.34, PL (0.19)

90% error in parentheses,
a J2000; b arcmin; c seconds; d 10-7 erg/cm2 (15-150 keV); e ph/cm2/sec (15-150 keV); f PL = simple power-law, CPL = cutoff power-law (15-150 keV)

BAT Light Curve:

BAT Light Curve for GRB 051221B

XRT Data:

RA: a 20:49:35.35
Dec: a 53:02:11.1
90% Error Radius: b 2.1
Time to First Observation: c 275.72
Early Flux: d n/a
11 Hour Flux: d 0.0000000000000001857115
24 Hour Flux: d 0.0000000000000000004250623
Initial Temporal Index: -7.793
Spectral Index (Gamma): 2.07809
Column Density (NH): e 14.7827

Note: Please be aware that only the very basic temporal and spectral quantities are reported here. You are strongly encouraged to see the referenced GCN circulars for full details.
a J2000; b arcsec; c seconds; d 10-11 erg/cm2/s (0.3-10 keV); e 1021 cm-2

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UVOT Data:

RA: a n/a
Dec: a n/a
90% Error Radius: b n/a
Time to First Observation: c 275
V Magnitude: n/a
Other Filter Magnitudes: n/a

a J2000; b arcsec; c seconds

Other Burst Info:

Redshift:
Host Galaxy:
Other Observatory Detections:
MDM (1.3m)

Comments:

Cannot rule out the possibility that it is a hard x-ray transient

References:

BAT: GCN 4376; GCN 4382; arXiv:0707.4626
XRT: GCN 4376; GCN 4378; GCN 4796; Evans et al., 2009, MNRAS, 397, 1177
UVOT: GCN 4376
Radio:
Redshift:
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