[vsnet-grb-info 12312] GRB 120821A: a long GRB detected by INTEGRAL

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  13696
SUBJECT: GRB 120821A: a long GRB detected by INTEGRAL
DATE:    12/08/21 14:47:21 GMT
FROM:    Sandro Mereghetti at IASF/CNR  <sandro at iasf-milano.inaf.it>

  S.Mereghetti (IASF-Milano), D.Gotz (CEA, Saclay), C.Ferrigno, R.Boissay 
(ISDC, Versoix), and J.Borkowski (CAMK, Torun) on behalf of the IBAS 
Localization Team report:

a long gamma ray burst lasting about 12 s has been detected by IBAS in the 
IBIS/ISGRI data at 13:23:45 UT of August 21

Its refined   coordinates (J2000) are:

RA:   255.2692    [degrees]
DEC:  -40.5212   [degrees]

with an uncertainty of 2 arcmin (90% c.l.).

The burst has a fluence of about  3e-7 erg/cm2  (20-200 keV)

A plot of the light curve will be  posted at
http://ibas.iasf-milano.inaf.it/IBAS_Results.html








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