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GCN Circular 393

Subject
GRB990806: possible X-ray afterglow, BeppoSAX
Date
1999-08-07T16:31:22Z (25 years ago)
From
Luigi Piro at IAS/CNR Frascati <piro@alpha1.ias.rm.cnr.it>
Giangiacomo Gandolfi, on behalf of BeppoSAX Mission Scientist, reports:

A BeppoSAX follow-up of GRB990806 started about 8 hr after the burst.
A quick look analysis of the first orbits of the MECS data at SOC
shows an object, previously unknown, inside the refined
error circle of the WFC.

Preliminary coordinates  are:
 R.A.(2000)= 47.674
 DEC(2000)= -68.113

 The error radius is 2'

BeppoSAX will continue its observation and monitoring of this source
until August 8.
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