TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 23387 SUBJECT: GRB 181028A: Fermi GBM observation DATE: 18/10/29 16:03:48 GMT FROM: Elisabetta Bissaldi at INFN,Bari E. Bissaldi (Politecnico & INFN Bari) and C. Meegan (UAH) report on behalf of the Fermi GBM Team: "At 14:09:42.53 UT on 28 October 2018, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor triggered and located GRB 181028A (trigger 562428587/ 181028590), which was also detected by the Fermi-LAT (Axelsson et al. 2018, GCN 23386). The GBM on-ground location is consistent with the LAT position. The angle from the Fermi-LAT boresight at the GBM trigger time is 58 degrees. The GBM light curve consists of multiple peaks with a duration (T90) of about 30 s (50-300 keV). The time-averaged spectrum from T0 to T0+30 s is adequately by a power law function with an exponential high-energy cutoff. The power law index is -0.72 +/- 0.02 and the cutoff energy, parameterized as Epeak, is 326 +/- 10 keV. The event fluence (10-1000 keV) in this time interval is (3.35 +/- 0.05)E-05 erg/cm^2. The 1-sec peak photon flux measured starting from T0+26.5 s in the 10-1000 keV band is 10.3 +/- 0.3 ph/s/cm^2. A Band function fits the spectrum equally well with Epeak= 306 +/- 13 keV, alpha = -0.69 +/- 0.03, and beta = -2.66 +/- 0.24. The spectral analysis results presented above are preliminary; final results will be published in the GBM GRB Catalog."