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GCN Circular 1629

Subject
IPN triangulation of GRB021008 (single error box)
Date
2002-10-12T14:21:56Z (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,

D. M. Smith, R. P. Lin, J. McTiernan, R. Schwartz, C. Wigger, W. 
Hajdas, and A. Zehnder, on behalf of the RHESSI GRB team,

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:

This burst (GCN 1617 and 1625) was also observed by RHESSI.
Triangulation confirms that the first error box in GCN 1625
is indeed the correct one:

    RA(2000)                              DEC(2000)
 ERROR BOX CENTER:  12 h 45 m 47.73 s     44 o 10 '  59.79 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 1: 12 h 46 m 19.03 s     44 o  8 '  30.23 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 2: 12 h 45 m 58.90 s     44 o 15 '  55.20 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 3: 12 h 45 m 36.49 s     44 o  6 '   4.47 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 4: 12 h 45 m 16.22 s     44 o 13 '  29.11 " 

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