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GCN Circular 7295

Subject
IPN localization of GRB 080211
Date
2008-02-12T17:51:47Z (16 years ago)
From
Valentin Pal'shin at Ioffe Inst <val@mail.ioffe.ru>
K. Hurley and T. Cline on behalf of the Mars Odyssey, Konus,
and MESSENGER GRB teams,

J. Goldsten, on behalf of the MESSENGER GRNS GRB team,

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

I. G. Mitrofanov, D. Golovin, M. L. Litvak, and A. B. Sanin,
on behalf of the HEND-Odyssey GRB team,

S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, E. Mazets, V. Pal'shin, D. Frederiks
on behalf of the Konus-Wind team,

D. M. Smith, R. P. Lin, J. McTiernan, R. Schwartz, C. Wigger, W.
Hajdas, and A. Zehnder, on behalf of the RHESSI 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, report:

Mars Odyssey (GRS), MESSENGER (GRNS), Konus-Wind, RHESSI, and Suzaku-WAM 
observed the long-duration GRB 080211 at about 26620 s UT (07:23:40).
The burst light curve shows a multipeaked structure with a duration of 
~35 sec.

We have triangulated the burst to the following, preliminary 3-sigma
error box:
-----------------------------------------------
      RA(2000)                    Dec(2000)
-----------------------------------------------
Center:
   43.968 (02h 55m 52s)   +60.035 (+60d 02' 07")
Corners:
   43.862 (02h 55m 27s)   +59.463 (+59d 27' 46")
   43.747 (02h 54m 59s)   +59.921 (+59d 55' 17")
   44.081 (02h 56m 19s)   +60.600 (+60d 35' 59")
   44.191 (02h 56m 46s)   +60.148 (+60d 08' 54")
-------------------------------------------------

The error box area is 409 sq. arcmin.
This error box may be improved.

Preliminary analysis of the Konus-Wind data yields
a burst fluence of ~6x10^-5 erg/cm2 (in the 20 keV - 2 MeV range),
and an Epeak of the time-integrated spectrum of ~360 keV.

Detailed spectral parameters will be reported later.
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