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GCN Circular 36369

Subject
GRB 240502A long GRB detected by INTEGRAL
Date
2024-05-02T06:17:59Z (18 days ago)
From
Sandro Mereghetti at IASF-Milano/INAF <sandro.mereghetti@inaf.it>
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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 gamma ray burst lasting about 25 s has been detected by IBAS in the  IBIS/ISGRI data at 05:28:37  UT of 2 May 2024.

The refined coordinates (J2000) are:
R.A.=  113.629 deg
DEC.=  +16.7244 deg
with an uncertainty of  2   arcmin (90% c.l.).

The burst had a fluence   of about 4e-7 erg/cmq in the 20-200 keV range

A plot of the light curve will  be posted at 
http://ibas.iasf-milano.inaf.it/IBAS_Results.html

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