GRB 201104A: Fermi-LAT detection
Abstract
On November 4, 2020, Fermi-LAT detected high-energy emission from GRB 201104A, which was also detected by Fermi-GBM (trigger 626140861/201104001) (Fermi-GBM team; GCN Circ. 28823). The best LAT on-ground location is found to be RA, Dec = 81.4, -71.1 (degrees, J2000) with an error radius of 0.24 deg (90% containment, statistical error only). This was 6.7 deg from the LAT boresight at the time of the GBM trigger: T0 = 00:00:56 UT. The source quickly went out from the LAT FoV but the data from the Fermi-LAT show a significant increase in the event rate after the GBM trigger that is spatially and temporally correlated with the GBM emission with high significance. The photon flux above 100 MeV in the time interval 0-100 s after the GBM trigger is (2.6+/-0.4)e-4 ph/cm2/s. The estimated photon index above 100 MeV is -2.5 +/- 0.2. The highest-energy photon is a 3.7 GeV event which is observed 16 seconds after the GBM trigger. A Swift ToO has been requested for this burst The Fermi-LAT point of contact for this burst is Masanori Ohno (ohno@astro.hiroshima-u.ac.jp). The Fermi-LAT is a pair conversion telescope designed to cover the energy band from 20 MeV to greater than 300 GeV. It is the product of an international collaboration between NASA and DOE in the U.S. and many scientific institutions across France, Italy, Japan and Sweden.
- Publication:
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GRB Coordinates Network
- Pub Date:
- November 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020GCN.28828....1O