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GCN Circular 2670

Subject
GRB 040827 - A long GRB detected by INTEGRAL
Date
2004-08-27T13:24:31Z (20 years ago)
From
Sandro Mereghetti at IASF/CNR <sandro@mi.iasf.cnr.it>
S. Mereghetti, D. Gotz (IASF, Milano), M.Beck, S.Shaw, P.Lubinski,
J.Borkowski (ISDC) on behalf of the IBAS Localization Team report

A 40 s long GRB has been detected with the INTEGRAL Burst Alert System
(IBAS) on Aug 27 at 11:50:48 UT. The GRB has been detected with
IBIS/ISGRI in the 15-200 keV band but with a significance below the
threshold for automatic delivery of the IBAS Alert Packets.

Its coordinates (J2000)  are:

R.A.  15h 16m 37.7s
Dec. -16deg 09' 29''

with an uncertainty of 3 arcmin  (90% c.l. radius)

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