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GCN Circular 6022

Subject
IPN localization of GRB070124 (short duration, hard spectrum)
Date
2007-01-24T21:25:16Z (18 years ago)
From
Kevin Hurley at UCBerkeley/SSL <khurley@ssl.berkeley.edu>
K. Hurley and T. Cline, on behalf of the Mars Odyssey and Konus GRB
teams,

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

V. Pal'shin, E. Mazets and S. Golenetskii, on behalf of the Konus-Wind
GRB team,

K.Yamaoka, M.Ohno, Y.Fukazawa, T.Takahashi, M.Tashiro, Y. Terada,
T.Murakami, and K.Makishima on behalf of the Suzaku WAM team, and

I. Mitrofanov, A. Kozyrev, M. Litvak, A. Sanin, V. Tret'yakov and A.
Parshukov, on behalf of the HEND-Odyssey GRB team, report:

Mars Odyssey (GRS), Konus-Wind, and the Suzaku WAM observed this
burst at 31311 s.  It had a T90 of 0.8 s, a 20 keV - 3 MeV fluence
of ~5 x 10^-6 erg cm^-2, and a hard spectrum with an Epeak ~ 1 MeV.
Therefore we believe that this event falls into the short duration
class.  We have triangulated it to an 87 sq. arcmin. preliminary 
3 sigma error box whose coordinates are:

	  RA	  Dec
Center:  221.385 +54.568

Corners: 220.834 +54.187
         221.818 +54.825
         221.945 +54.947 
         220.956 +54.310

A Swift ToO observation of this error box has been scheduled.
Detailed spectral parameters are being derived and will be reported
later.
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