SGR 1627-41
Abstract
P. Woods, M. Kippen, and Jan van Paradijs, University of Alabama in Huntsville; C. Kouveliotou and M. McCollough, Universities Space Research Association; and K. Hurley, Space Sciences Laboratory, communicate: "BATSE Earth-limb considerations limit the possible position of this object to declinations along the IPN annulus reported by Hurley et al. (below), which are between -43 deg and -49 deg. This is slightly outside the BATSE 1-sigma error circle reported on IAUC 6944. However, due to the soft spectrum of the source, systematic errors were larger than usual. A preliminary search through the MOST supernova remnant (SNR) catalogue (Whiteoak and Green 1996, A.Ap. Suppl. 118, 329) reveals only one candidate within the error box reported here, G337.0-0.1. The peculiar nonthermal-structure core reported for G337.0-0.1 is entirely within the IPN annulus width. We strongly encourage follow-up observations of the SNR source." Hurley, on behalf of the Ulysses Gamma-Ray Burst Team; and Kouveliotou, Kippen, and Woods, on behalf of the Gamma-Ray Observatory BATSE team, report: "We have obtained an IPN annulus for this soft gamma-ray repeater (IAUC 6944). Its center is at R.A. = 22h01m40s, Decl. = -10o09'.8 (equinox 2000.0), and its radius is 76.769 +/- 0.028 deg. Considerable further refinement of this position is possible. An image may be found at http://ssl.berkeley.edu/ipn3/sgr1627-41/."
- Publication:
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International Astronomical Union Circular
- Pub Date:
- June 1998
- Bibcode:
- 1998IAUC.6948....1W