BeppoSAX Alert -- GB980425

ATel #12; Editor
on 26 Apr 1998; 03:37 UT
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I received the following notice:

BeppoSAX GRB MAIL N. 98/9
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GB980425

The BeppoSAX GRBM was triggered at 21:49:11 UT of April 25 by a GRB (GB980425) The event was detected by one of the WFC (WFC2), with preliminary position:
RA(2000)=293.65
Dec(2000)=-52.81
The error radius at this stage is 10', that includes systematic errors due to a not optimal attitude configuration.

An update of the position will be released soon.

A BeppoSAX follow up with the NFI is being planned

Luigi Piro
BeppoSAX Mission Scientist