GCN Circular 2283
Subject
HETE detection of burst from SGR1806-20
Date
2003-06-16T18:22:18Z (21 years ago)
From
Roland Vanderspek at MIT <roland@space.mit.edu>
K. Hurley, J-L. Atteia, N. Kawai, D. Lamb, G. Ricker, and S. Woosley on
behalf of the HETE Science Team;
C. Barraud, M. Boer, J-F Olive, and J-P Dezalay on behalf of the HETE
FREGATE Team;
N. Butler, G. Crew, J. Doty, G. Prigozhin, R. Vanderspek, J. Villasenor,
T. Cline, J. G. Jernigan, A. Levine, F. Martel, E. Morgan, G. Monnelly,
G. Azzibrouck, J. Braga, R. Manchanda, and G. Pizzichini, on behalf of
the HETE Operations and HETE Optical-SXC Teams;
M. Suzuki, C. Graziani, Y. Shirasaki, T. Donaghy, M. Matsuoka, K. Torii,
T. Tamagawa, T. Sakamoto, A. Yoshida, E. Fenimore, M. Galassi,
Y. Nakagawa, R. Satoh, Y. Urata, T. Yamazaki and Y. Yamamoto, on behalf
of the HETE WXM Team report:
HETE Trigger H2734, detected at 04:14:29 UT on 9 June 2003, was
due to a short burst from SGR1806-20. This burst had a duration
of ~100 ms and a 30-100 keV fluence of 6 x 10^-8 erg/cm2. The
position was not circulated automatically because the spacecraft
aspect had not yet been determined.
This detection may indicate the onset of a new period of activity
for this SGR.