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GRB 021219

GCN Circular 1766

Subject
GRB021219: a long GRB localized by INTEGRAL
Date
2002-12-19T12:36:03Z (23 years ago)
From
INTEGRAL Shift Ops at INTEGRAL <shift@isdcmail.unige.ch>
S. Mereghetti, D. Gotz, J. Burkowsky,
the INTEGRAL Science Data Center and the INTEGRAL Science Working team
report the detection of GRB021219 at 07:33:57 UTC
in the field  of view of the IBIS telescope on board ESA's INTEGRAL
satellite.
The burst  lasted about 4 seconds  and had a peak flux  of about 1-2
10^-7 erg/cm2/s in the 25-100 keV range.
The preliminary position is RA 18h50m and DEC +31deg 52s with an
uncertainty of 20' (radius) dominated by systematics.
A refined position will be reported as soon as available.
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[GCN OPS NOTE (19dec02): Due to a typing mistake the GRB declination
in GCN 1766 was reported as  +31deg 52s.  The correct value is  +31deg 52min
There was also a spelling error in the name of J.Borkowski.]

GCN Circular 1768

Subject
GRB021219 refined position with INTEGRAL
Date
2002-12-19T18:07:56Z (23 years ago)
From
INTEGRAL Shift Ops at INTEGRAL <shift@isdcmail.unige.ch>
D.Gotz (IASF-Milano), P.Favre (ISDC), S.Mereghetti (IASF-Milano)
and J.Borkowski (ISDC) and the INTEGRAL Science Working team
report :

Further analysis of the INTEGRAL IBIS data led to a
refined position of GRB021219  of  RA 18h 50.5m DEC 31deg 54m
(J2000) with an uncertainty of 4 arcmin.

GCN Circular 1769

Subject
GRB021219: Correction to GCN 1766
Date
2002-12-19T18:24:01Z (23 years ago)
From
INTEGRAL Shift Ops at INTEGRAL <shift@isdcmail.unige.ch>
Due to a typing mistake the GRB declination in GCN 1766
was reported as  +31deg 52s.
The correct value is  +31deg 52min
There was also a spelling error in the name of J.Borkowski

GCN Circular 1770

Subject
GRB021219, optical observation by MASTER
Date
2002-12-19T21:43:26Z (23 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <gcncirc@observ.inetcomm.ru>
V. Lipunov, A. Krylov, V. Kornilov, G. Borisov,
D. Kuvshinov, M. Kuznetcov
S. Patanin - Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow report:

We observed with MASTER-system  (http://observ.inetcomm.ru/)
error
box of the burst
GRB 021219 (GCN INTEGRAL Circ 1766)
at 15:04:07 UT (after 7,5 hours GRB time) between cloudes.
There  is no OT brighter than 13.7 (With respect to R-USNO stars).
The corected eror box (GCN Circ 1769) was in our field.

The Images can be seen at URL:

http://observ.inetcomm.ru/images/19122002/

Circular may be cited.

GCN Circular 1771

Subject
IPN triangulation of GRB021219
Date
2002-12-19T22:27:31Z (23 years ago)
From
Kevin Hurley at UCBerkeley/SSL <khurley@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu>
K. Hurley and T. Cline, on behalf of the Ulysses GRB team, and

D.Gotz (IASF-Milano), P.Favre (ISDC), S.Mereghetti (IASF-Milano),
J.Borkowski (ISDC), and the INTEGRAL Science Working team,
report:

This burst (GCN 1766, 1767, 1768) was also observed by Ulysses. 

Although the INTEGRAL timing is still undergoing refinement, we have
triangulated it assuming a systematic uncertainty of 100 ms, which is
supported by recent SGR observations.  The preliminary annulus is
centered  at RA, Decl(2000)= 182.935, 36.337 degrees, with radius
78.549 +/-  0.023 degrees (3 sigma ).  This annulus intersects the
INTEGRAL error circle given in GCN 1768 at two points:

          RA                               DEC
     282.557459=18 H 50 M 13.79 S      31.832096= 31 o 49' 55"
     282.642596=18 H 50 M 34.22 S      31.932013= 31 o 55' 55"

This reduces the error box size to about 15 square arcminutes.
This annulus may be improved.  A map has been posted at
ssl.berkeley.edu/ipn3/021219.

GCN Circular 1772

Subject
IPN triangulation of GRB021219 - CORRECTION
Date
2002-12-19T22:46:36Z (23 years ago)
From
Kevin Hurley at UCBerkeley/SSL <khurley@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu>
K. Hurley and T. Cline, on behalf of the Ulysses GRB team, and

D.Gotz (IASF-Milano), P.Favre (ISDC), S. Mereghetti (IASF-Milano),
J. Borkowski (ISDC), and the INTEGRAL Science Working team,
report:

The IPN  annulus actually intersects the INTEGRAL error circle given in
GCN 1768 at four points, not two:

          RA                               DEC
     282.572616=18 h 50 m 17 s      31.849899= 31 o  50 '  59 "
     282.664692=18 h 50 m 39 s      31.957916= 31 o  57 '  28 "
     282.546093=18 h 50 m 11 s      31.898856= 31 o  53 '  55 "
     282.601577=18 h 50 m 24 s      31.963983= 31 o  57 '  50 "

Thus the agreement between the annulus and the error circle is
improved, but the error box size increases to about 22 square
arcminutes.  A revised map has been posted at
ssl.berkeley.edu/ipn3/021219.

GCN Circular 1773

Subject
GRB021219, optical observations
Date
2002-12-20T20:45:29Z (23 years ago)
From
Arne A. Henden at USNO/USRA <aah@nofs.navy.mil>
A. Henden (USRA/USNO), J. Hambsch (VVS/AAVSO), E. Broens (VVS/AAVSO) report:

We have imaged the entire error circle of GRB021219
(Mereghetti et al., GCN 1766; Gotz et al., GCN 1768)
with the following results:

     UTD     dt(burst) tele   exp   filt  condx  lim_mag
   021219.78  11hr     0.4m  8x5min  Rc   poor   18.0
   021220.06  18hr     1.0m  12min   Ic   poor   19.5

Comparison with the DSS-2 F and N plates show only a few objects
near the plate limit that may or may not be real, but no new
bright object.  No galaxies are seen; at galactic longitude 61.8
and latitude +14, this field is relatively close to the galactic plane.
No additional observations are planned.

GCN Circular 1774

Subject
GRB021219: Radio Observations
Date
2002-12-20T21:52:26Z (23 years ago)
From
Edo Berger at Caltech <ejb@astro.caltech.edu>
E. Berger (Caltech) and D. A. Frail (NRAO) report on behalf of a larger
collaboration:

"On December 20.03 UT we used the VLA at 4.86 GHz to observe the error box
of GRB 021219 (GCN 1766).  We detect a single radio source within the
refined IPN+INTEGRAL error region (GCN 1772), which is visible in the NRAO
VLA Sky Survey (NVSS; Condon et al. 1998, AJ, 115, 1693).  There are no
additional sources down to a 4-sigma limit of 220 microJy."

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GCN Circular 1775

Subject
GRB 021219: OSN optical observations
Date
2002-12-20T23:00:11Z (23 years ago)
Edited On
2024-11-18T10:09:55Z (7 months ago)
From
Alberto Castro-Tirado at Inst.de Astro. de Andalucia <ajct@iaa.es>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Leo P. Singer at NASA/GSFC <leo.p.singer@nasa.gov>
A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. Gorosabel and P. Amado (IAA-CSIC, Granada)
J. M. Castro Cerón (ROA, San Fernando)

report:

"On Dec 20.74 UT we observed the field of the GRB 021219
detected by INTEGRAL (Mereghetti et al. GCN 1766) with
the 1.5-m Telescope at the Observatorio de Sierra Nevada in
Granada, in order to monitor the entire IBIS-IPN error box
(Hurley et al. GCN 1771, Gotz et al. GCN 1772). In the co-
added image  (6 x  300-s in the Johnson R-band filter with
a 2".5 seeing),  no optical transient is found when comparing
to the DSS-2  (R-band) down to R = 20.5".

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