GCN Circular 33494
Subject
INTEGRAL detection of a burst from SGR 1806-200
Date
2023-03-21T09:43:58Z (a year ago)
From
Sandro Mereghetti at IASF-Milano/INAF <sandro.mereghetti@inaf.it>
S.Mereghetti (INAF, IASF-Milano), D.Gotz (CEA, Saclay), C.Ferrigno,
E.Bozzo, V.Savchenko (ISDC, Versoix), L.Ducci (IAAT, Germany and ISDC,
Versoix) and J.Borkowski (CAMK, Torun) report:
A bright short burst (~80 ms) from the magnetar SGR 1806-20 has been
detected in the IBIS/ISGRI data at 06:12:21 UT of March 21, 2023. A
preliminary analysis indicates a fluence of about 1e-4 erg/cm2 in the
20-200 keV range.
This burst has been also detected by the Fermi/GBM (trigger n. 701071944)