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GCN Circular 2300

Subject
IPN triangulation of GRB030715 (two large error boxes)
Date
2003-07-15T16:49:48Z (21 years ago)
From
Kevin Hurley at UCBerkeley/SSL <khurley@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu>
K. Hurley and T. Cline, on behalf of the Ulysses and Mars Odyssey GRB
teams,

I. Mitrofanov, S. Charyshnikov, V. Grinkov, 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

A. von Kienlin, G. Lichti, and A. Rau, on behalf of the INTEGRAL
SPI-ACS GRB team, report:

Ulysses, Mars Odyssey (HEND), and INTEGRAL (SPI-ACS) observed this
burst at 15952 s.  As observed by Ulysses, it had a duration of
approximately 15 seconds, a 25-100 keV fluence of approximately
7.5E-06 erg/cm2, and a peak flux of approximately  8.0E-07 erg/cm2 s
over 0.25 seconds.

We have triangulated it to two alternate, preliminary, 3 sigma error
boxes each with approximate area 1900 square arcminutes whose
coordinates are:

    RA(2000)                              DEC(2000)
 ERROR BOX CENTER:   6 h 51 m 21.55 s    -13 o 20 '   5.65 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 1:  6 h 47 m 33.11 s    -12 o 12 '  31.02 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 2:  6 h 42 m 36.95 s    -10 o 33 '  23.53 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 3:  7 h  0 m 41.46 s    -16 o  3 '   6.83 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 4:  6 h 55 m 15.97 s    -14 o 26 '  59.30 " 

                                       OR

 ERROR BOX CENTER:  15 h 21 m 57.47 s     26 o 26 '  32.98 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 4: 15 h 24 m 16.10 s     27 o 48 '  30.52 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 5: 15 h 27 m  8.20 s     29 o 45 '  26.15 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 6: 15 h 16 m 37.66 s     23 o  7 '  27.46 " 
 ERROR BOX CORNER 7: 15 h 19 m 37.52 s     25 o  4 '  34.99 " 

There is a chance that the ambiguity can be resolved by further processing.
These error boxes may be improved.
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