GCN Circular 1233
Subject
IPN detection of further activity from SGR1806-20
Date
2002-01-29T00:34:27Z (23 years ago)
From
Kevin Hurley at UCBerkeley/SSL <khurley@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu>
K. Hurley, on behalf of the Ulysses GRB team, E. Mazets and
S. Golenetskii, on behalf of the Konus-Wind GRB team, and C. Guidorzi,
E. Montanari, F. Frontera, and M. Feroci, on behalf of the BeppoSAX
GRBM team, report:
The IPN continues to detect activity which is probably from SGR1806-20.
The updated event list is now:
DATE TIME ULYSSES BEPPOSAX KONUS
____ ____ _______ ________ _____
020117 81788 YES IN SAA WEAK RESPONSE
020118 71671 YES YES YES
020122 38499 YES NO DATA YES
020124 79251* YES
020125 36444* YES
*TIME AT ULYSSES, WHICH WAS ABOUT 1250 LIGHT-SECONDS FROM EARTH;
EARTH-CROSSING TIME FOR SGR1806 IS ABOUT 75 S LATER
The bursts on the 17th, 18th, and 22nd have all been triangulated to
annuli which are consistent with the position of SGR1806. The bursts
on the 24th and 25th are definitely SGR-like, in that their durations
are ~30 ms; there are too few photons in the Ulysses data to determine
their spectra, however. We are searching for confirmation of them in
the GRBM and KONUS data, which will allow triangulation.