TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 20096 SUBJECT: GRB 161022A: Fermi GBM observation DATE: 16/10/22 16:33:18 GMT FROM: Oliver Roberts at UCD/Fermi O.J. Roberts (UCD) reports on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team: At 02:43:45.92 UT on October 22nd, 2016, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor triggered and located GRB 161022A (trigger 498797029/161022114), which was also detected by Swift (Stamatikos et al., GCN 20087). The GBM on-ground location is consistent with the Swift position. The angle from the Fermi LAT boresight is 131 degrees. The GBM light curve shows a weak, FRED-like peak with a duration (T90) of about 19 s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum from T0-6.1 s to T0+11.3 s is adequately fit by a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -0.59 +/- 0.37 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 155.7 +/- 33.2 keV The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (1.65 +/- 0.24)E-06 erg/cm^2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured starting from T0-1.3 s in the 10-1000keV band is 2.5 +/- 0.4 ph/s/cm^2. The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary; final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog.