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GCN Circular 1412

Subject
Correction to IPN triangulation of GRB020603 (possible short/hard burst)
Date
2002-06-06T00:35:18Z (22 years ago)
From
Kevin Hurley at UCBerkeley/SSL <khurley@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu>
K. Hurley and T. Cline, on behalf of the Ulysses, Mars Odyssey, 
and Konus GRB teams,

I. Mitrofanov, D. Anfimov, A. Kozyrev, M. Litvak and A. Sanin on behalf of the
HEND/Odyssey GRB team,

E. Mazets and S. Golenetskii, on behalf of the Konus-Wind GRB team,

D. M. Smith, R. P. Lin, J. McTiernan, R. Schwartz, C. Wigger, W. Hajdas,
and A. Zehnder, on behalf of the RHESSI GRB team, and

W. Boynton, C. Fellows, K. Harshman, C. Shinohara and R. Starr, on behalf of
the GRS/Odyssey GRB team, report:

The initial triangulation of this burst, given in GCN 1409, was based
on the data of the only three spacecraft available at that time, and
therefore gave two alternate positions, one of which appeared to be
ruled out based on its ecliptic latitude.  However, this burst was also
observed by RHESSI.  The addition of this fourth spacecraft to the
triangulation indicates that the burst in fact must have originated
from the alternate error box.  The area of this error box is
approximately 19 square arcminutes and its coordinates are:

    RA(2000)                 DEC(2000)
 15 h 46 m 35.53 s    -22 o 15 '  12.95 "  (CENTER)
 15 h 46 m  2.21 s    -22 o 18 '  52.67 "  (CORNER)
 15 h 46 m 22.37 s    -22 o 18 '   4.94 "  (CORNER)
 15 h 46 m 48.71 s    -22 o 12 '  20.76 "  (CORNER)
 15 h 47 m  8.96 s    -22 o 11 '  32.14 "  (CORNER)

The other properties of the burst given in GCN 1409 have not
changed.

We regret the inconvenience which this error may have caused.
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