GCN Circular 1222
Subject
IPN observations of SGR1806-20
Date
2002-01-25T20:48:02Z (23 years ago)
From
Kevin Hurley at UCBerkeley/SSL <khurley@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu>
K. Hurley, on behalf of the Ulysses GRB team, and C. Guidorzi,
E. Montanari, F. Frontera, and M. Feroci, on behalf of the BeppoSAX
GRBM team, report:
Ulysses and BeppoSAX have detected a series of short duration
bursts which appear to originate from SGR1806-20:
DATE TIME ULYSSES BEPPOSAX
____ ____ _______ ________
020117 81678* YES IN SAA AND EARTH-BLOCKED
020118 71671 YES YES
020122 38418* YES NO DATA
*TIME AT ULYSSES, WHICH WAS ABOUT 1250 LIGHT-SECONDS FROM EARTH;
EARTH-CROSSING TIME FOR SGR1806 IS ABOUT 107 S LATER
The only burst which could be triangulated was the one on
January 18, and its position agrees with that of SGR1806-20.
The burst on January 22 was particularly intense. If all
of these events are indeed from SGR1806-20, this may signal
a resurgence of activity from this source.