Swift/BAT detection of a burst from SGR J1745-29

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Authors
  • J.A. Kennea
  • D.N. Burrows
  • J. Cummings
  • C. Kouveliotou
Publication date 2013
Journal The astronomer's telegram
Volume | Issue number 5124
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract At 11:17:26 UT on June 7th, 2013 Swift/BAT triggered on a burst from the region near Sgr A*, which contains the currently active magnetar SGR J1745-29 (Kennea et al. 2013; Mori et al. 2013). The initial onboard data showed a short duration single soft peak < 0.32s in duration (Barthelmy et al., GCN #14805). We have analyzed the downlinked BAT data and find a refined position of RA/Dec = 266.4340, -28.9876 with an estimated error of 2.6 arc-min.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=5124
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