GCN Circular 635
Subject
X-ray burst or X-ray rich GRB 000416 observed by BeppoSAX
Date
2000-04-17T18:36:17Z (24 years ago)
From
SAX Science Operations at IAS/CNR Frascati <saxsci@ias.rm.cnr.it>
On April 16 at 14:32:54 UT a burst was detected in WFC n.2
with a peak flux of about 2 Crab in the 2-26 keV range.
The burst lasted about 25 s.
Preliminary position is:
R.A.= 258.76
Decl.= -71.56
with an error radius of 4'.
We name the source 1SAXJ1715.0-7134.
A marginal detection of the burst in the GRBM (40-700 keV) would lead to
classify the event as an X-Ray rich GRB, although we could not exclude a
type I X-ray burster on the basis of the WFC hardness ratio.
A fast TOO observation was technically feasible but we could not perform
it because of budget reduction of BeppoSAX operations (see GCN n.634)
L. Piro
BeppoSAX Mission Scientist