SGR 1900+14

F. E. Marshall, T. Cline, and D. Palmer, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA; E. P. Mazets, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg; K. Hurley, University of California at Berkeley; and A. P. Beardmore, Keele University, write: "The x-ray transient of Aug. 27.432148 UT, initially reported on IAUC 7002, has been localized using the relative arrival times at RXTE, Global Geo- Science Wind, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, and Ulysses. The six different two-spacecraft annuli are consistent with the location of SGR 1900+14, as expected (see IAUC 7004), with errors from about 1' to 12'. This event appears to be the brightest soft gamma-ray repeater in the four years of GGS-Wind operation. The maximum intensity is difficult to determine, since this event saturated both the RXTE PCA and the GGS-Wind detector and triggered an automatic turn-off of the NEAR gamma-ray experiment."