[vsnet-alert 3189] BeppoSAX MAIL n. 99/18: GRB990705: possible X-ray afterglow

[Luigi Piro - BeppoSAX Mission Scientist <piro@ias.rm.cnr.it>]

BeppoSAX MAIL n. 99/18: GRB990705: possible X-ray afterglow
 
A BeppoSAX follow-up of GRB990705 started about 11 hr after the burst.
A quick look analysis of the first five orbits of the MECS data at SOC
shows only one object, previously unknown, inside the refined
error circle of the WFC and located near the edge of the LMC.
 
Preliminary coordinates  are:
 R.A.(2000)= 77.489
 DEC(2000)= -72.132
 
 The error radius is 2'
 
BeppoSAX will continue its observation and monitoring of this source up
to a total observing time of 100 ksec.
 
 
Giangiacomo Gandolfi
on behalf of BeppoSAX Mission Scientist

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 Luigi Piro                        | E-mail:
 Istituto Astrofisica Spaziale     |              piro@alpha1.ias.rm.cnr.it
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 Via Fosso del Cavaliere           | phone: -39-06-4993-4007 
 I-00133 Roma                      | phone BeppoSAX center: -39-06-4079-6393
 Italy                             | fax(CNR)  : -39-06-20660188
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