[vsnet-grb-info 5594] IPN localization of very hard GRB 080204

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TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  7256
SUBJECT: IPN localization of very hard GRB 080204
DATE:    08/02/05 17:57:16 GMT
FROM:    Valentin Pal'shin at Ioffe Inst  <val at mail.ioffe.ru>

S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, E. Mazets, V. Pal'shin, D. Frederiks
on behalf of the Konus-Wind team,

K. Hurley and T. Cline on behalf of the Mars Odyssey, Konus,
and MESSENGER GRB teams,

W. Boynton, C. Fellows, K. Harshman, C. Shinohara and R. Starr, on
behalf of the GRS-Odyssey GRB team,

I. G. Mitrofanov, D. Golovin, M. L. Litvak, and A. B. Sanin,
on behalf of the HEND-Odyssey GRB team,

K. Yamaoka, M. Ohno, Y. Fukazawa, T. Takahashi, M. Tashiro, Y. Terada,
T. Murakami, and K. Makishima on behalf of the Suzaku WAM team,

A. von Kienlin, G. Lichti, and A. Rau, on behalf of the
INTEGRAL SPI-ACS GRB team,

M. Marisaldi, F. Fuschino, M. Galli, C. Labanti,
E. Del Monte, F. Lazzarotto, L. Pacciani, P. Soffitta
on behalf of the AGILE team, and

J. Cummings, S. Barthelmy, N. Gehrels, and H. Krimm, on behalf of
the Swift-BAT team, report:

Mars Odyssey (GRS), Konus-Wind, Suzaku-WAM, INTEGRAL SPI-ACS,
AGILE-MCAL, SuperAGILE, and Swift-BAT observed the long-duration, hard 
spectrum GRB 080204 at about 50192 s UT (13:56:32). The burst was 
outside the coded field of view of the BAT and SuperAGILE.
The burst light curve shows a short precursor, followed in ~3 sec by a 
single multipeaked pulse with a duration of ~15 sec. There is a sign of 
extended emission seen up to T-T0~80 s in the Konus-Wind soft band.

We have triangulated the burst to the following, preliminary 3-sigma
error box:
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    RA(2000), deg             Dec(2000), deg
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Center:
  285.566 (19h 02m 16s)   -62.896 (-62d 53' 44")
Corners:
  287.728 (19h 10m 55s)   -62.334 (-62d 20' 01")
  283.813 (18h 55m 15s)   -63.453 (-63d 27' 12")
  283.277 (18h 53m 07s)   -63.402 (-63d 24' 08")
  287.212 (19h 08m 51s)   -62.305 (-62d 18' 18")
-----------------------------------------------

The error box area is 1212 sq. arcmin.
This error box may be improved

Preliminary analysis of the Konus-Wind data yields
a burst fluence of ~4x10^-5 erg/cm2 (in the 20 keV - 4 MeV range),
and a very hard energy spectrum with an Epeak of the main pulse
of ~1.4 MeV.

Detailed spectral parameters will be reported later.