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GCN Circular 1448

Subject

Correction to IPN error box for GRB020706

Date

2002-07-07T23:08:59Z (22 years ago)

From

Kevin Hurley at UCBerkeley/SSL <khurley@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu>

K. Hurley reports:

There was an error in the coordinates of the fourth corner
of the error box in GCN 1447Loading...
 
 . The error box corners are:

    RA(2000)                              DEC(2000)
 ERROR BOX CENTER:  14 h 21 m 35.25 s    -55 o 45 '  41.76 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 1: 14 h 21 m 48.16 s    -55 o 37 '  57.10 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 2: 14 h 21 m 22.31 s    -55 o 53 '  26.38 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 3: 14 h 20 m 55.35 s    -55 o 43 '  45.23 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 4: 14 h 22 m 15.61 s    -55 o 47 '  37.62 " <<< corrected coordinates
 ERROR BOX CORNER 5: 14 h 22 m 22.65 s    -55 o 38 '  05.81 "
 ERROR BOX CORNER 6: 14 h 20 m 47.59 s    -55 o 53 '  16.88 "

We are still waiting for more data to confirm that this is
indeed the correct intersection.