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GCN Circular 1551

Subject
IPN triangulation of GRB020923 (two error boxes)
Date
2002-09-25T02:14:19Z (22 years ago)
From
Kevin Hurley at UCBerkeley/SSL <khurley@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu>
K. Hurley and T. Cline, on behalf of the Ulysses, Konus, and Mars Odyssey GRB teams,

I. Mitrofanov, D. Anfimov, A. Kozyrev, M. Litvak and A. Sanin,
on behalf of the HEND/Odyssey GRB team,

W. Boynton, C. Fellows, K. Harshman, C. Shinohara and R. Starr,
on behalf of the GRS/Odyssey GRB team, and

E. Mazets and S. Golenetskii, on behalf of the Konus-Wind GRB team, report:

Ulysses, Mars Odyssey-HEND and GRS, and Konus-Wind  observed this GRB
at 47182 seconds (GCN 1550).  As observed by Ulysses, it had a duration
of approximately  5 seconds, a 25-100 keV fluence of approximately
4.6E-6 erg/cm2, and a peak flux of approximately  3.5E-07 erg/cm2 s
over 0.50 seconds.

We have triangulated it to two preliminary, 3 sigma error box whose
approximate areas are each 425 sq. arcmin. and whose coordinates are:

    RA(2000)                              DEC(2000)
 ERROR BOX CENTER:  14 h  6 m  7.54 s     50 o 31 '  18.25 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 1: 14 h  6 m 59.90 s     50 o 17 '  59.15 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 2: 14 h  6 m 25.92 s     50 o 51 '  50.42 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 3: 14 h  5 m 48.13 s     50 o 10 '  48.11 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 4: 14 h  5 m 14.07 s     50 o 44 '  32.15 " 

or

ERROR BOX CENTER:  9 h 20 m 15.09 s      59 o 56 ' 35.43 "
ERROR BOX CORNER 5:  9 h 18 m 33.02 s     59 o 47 '  29.22 "
ERROR BOX CORNER 6:  9 h 20 m 57.27 s     60 o 16 '  39.32 "
ERROR BOX CORNER 7:  9 h 19 m 35.37 s     59 o 36 '  28.03 "
ERROR BOX CORNER 8:  9 h 21 m 58.62 s     60 o  5 '  30.99 "


These error boxes may be improved.  However, the Konus ecliptic latitude
response does not allow us to choose between them; this may become possible
if RHESSI observed this event.
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