GCN Circular 2780
Subject
GRB041006 (= H3570): Chandra Observations In Progress
Date
2004-10-07T13:44:41Z (20 years ago)
From
George Ricker at MIT <grr@space.mit.edu>
GRB041006 (= H3570): Chandra Observations In Progress
G. Ricker, N. Butler, P. Ford, H. Marshall, R. Vanderspek (MIT); G.
Garmire (PSU); and D. Lamb (U. Chicago), on behalf of a Chandra GRB
ToO Team,
write:
Chandra grating spectrometer observations of the afterglow
counterpart (Da Costa, Noel, and Price; GCN2765) for GRB041006 -- a
bright, X-ray rich gamma-ray burst discovered by HETE (= H3570:
Galassi et al, GCN 2770) -- are in progress.
The Chandra LETG/ACIS observation commenced at approximately 5:30 UT
on 7 October 2004, and will continue for approximately 26 hours. The
scheduling of contemporaneous photometry and spectroscopy at other
wavelengths is strongly encouraged.
We are grateful to Harvey Tananbaum and the Chandra X-ray Center
observatory staff for scheduling this observation to commence only 17
hours after the GRB event.
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