{
  "bibcode": "2008GCN..7645....1O",
  "body": "Eran. O. Ofek (Caltech), Avishay Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute for\nScience), and Franz Bauer (Columbia) report:\n\nRecently, Bauer et al. (2008; astro-ph/0804.3597)\nsuggested that the type IIn SN 1996cr in the Circinus galaxy\nis associated with GRB 960202B (triggered at 14:05:51).\nThis suggestion is based on the coincidence of the BATSE error circle\nwith the SN position, as well as a rough consistency of\nthe GRB trigger with the inferred explosion time of the SN\n(1995-02-28 to 1996-03-16).\n\nThis GRB is listed in the Inter-Planetary Network\ndatabase (Laros et al. 1997; Hurley et al. 1999).\nInspection of its positional constraints reveals that\nSN1996cr is not consistent with the position of this GRB,\nand the SN is located 1.38 deg outside the perimeter of the\n3-sigma IPN annulus.\n\nWe note that the IPN positions were used to calibrate\nthe BATSE positional errors (Briggs et al. 1999).\n\nWe thank Kevin Hurley for maintaining the IPN database.",
  "circularId": 7645,
  "createdOn": 1209367799000,
  "email": "eran@wise1.tau.ac.il",
  "subject": "GRB960202B - on the association with SN 1996cr",
  "submitter": "Eran Ofek at Tel Aviv U.  <eran@wise1.tau.ac.il>",
  "eventId": "GRB 960202B"
}