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GCN Circular 9014

Subject
A bright burst from AXP 1E 1547.0-5408/SGR J1550-5418
Date
2009-03-23T02:25:59Z (15 years ago)
From
Marco Feroci at IASF/INAF <feroci@iasf-roma.inaf.it>
E. Del Monte, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, I. Donnarumma, F. Lazzarotto,
L. Pacciani, P. Soffitta, E. Costa, I. Lapshov, M. Rapisarda
(INAF/IASF Rome), A. Giuliani, A. Chen, S. Mereghetti, F. Perotti, P. 
Caraveo (INAF/IASF Milan), A. Pellizzoni, M. Pilia (OA Cagliari), S. 
Vercellone (INAF/IASF Palermo), A. Bulgarelli, F. Gianotti, M. Trifoglio, 
G. Di Cocco, C. Labanti, F. Fuschino, M. Marisaldi, M. Galli, (INAF/IASF 
Bologna), M. Tavani, G. Pucella, F. D'Ammando, V. Vittorini, A. Argan, A. 
Trois, G. Piano, S. Sabatini (INAF/IASF Rome), G. Barbiellini, F. Longo, 
E. Moretti (INFN Trieste), P. Picozza, A. Morselli (INFN Roma-2),
M. Prest, E. Vallazza (Universita` dell'Insubria), P. Lipari,
D. Zanello (INFN Roma-1), and  P. Giommi, C. Pittori, 
P. Santolamazza, F. Verrecchia (ASDC) and L. Salotti (ASI),
on behalf of the AGILE Team, report:

"A bright burst from AXP 1E 1547.0-5408 / SGR J1550-5418 was triggered
and imaged by SuperAGILE on 22 March 2009, at 22:39:16 UT. The event had
a duration of about 250 ms, with a multi-peak structure. The peak flux
on the 10 ms timescale was approximately 3.6e-5 erg/cm2/s in the 20-60 keV
energy range, based on the raw assumption of a Crab-like energy spectrum.
The latest reported bursting activity from this source dates back to 2009, 
Feb 24th (Kouveliotou et al., GCN #8915)."
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