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GCN Circular 2921

Subject
IPN localization of giant flare from SGR1806-20
Date
2004-12-29T12:30:42Z (19 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, and

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


The giant flare observed by INTEGRAL (SPI-ACS - GCN 2920) was also detected
by Mars Odyssey (GRS).  Data from other IPN spacecraft have not
been received yet.  A very preliminary analysis indicates that 
the arrival time at Odyssey is indeed consistent with an arrival
direction from SGR1806-20.  Further analysis is underway and will
be reported later.
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