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GCN Circular 72

Subject
BeppoSAX GRB ALERT: updated position of grb980515
Date
1998-05-16T01:20:13Z (26 years ago)
From
Marco Feroci at IAS/CNR Frascati <feroci@ias.rm.cnr.it>
GB980515

Luigi Piro and Marco Feroci on behalf of the BeppoSAX team report:

A GRB (GB980515) was observed by the BeppoSAX GRBM
at about 17:00:10 UT of May 15.
The event was detected by one of the WFC (WFC2).
The updated WFC position is:
   RA(2000)=319.518
   Dec(2000)=-67.249
The  error radius  is still of 5'.  A further refinement
of the WFC position should be available next Monday.

The BeppoSAX follow-up with the NFI should start around 2 AM UT of May 16.
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