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GCN Circular 99

Subject

GRB980613, BeppoSAX WFC positions

Date

1998-06-13T15:35:21Z (26 years ago)

From

SAX Science Operations at IAS/CNR Frascati <saxsci@ias.rm.cnr.it>

Luigi Piro and Enrico Costa  on behalf of BeppoSAX team report:

The GRBM of BeppoSAX was triggered by a GRB (GB980613) on June 13 at
04:51:06 UT. The burst was detected by WFC (n.2).

The preliminary WFC position was
  RA(2000)=154.55
  Dec(2000)=71.486
with an error radius of 5'.

The refined WFC position is now
  RA(2000)=154.44
  Dec(2000)=71.499
with an error radius of 4'.

A BeppoSAX follow up  with the NFI is being planned.