Gamma Ray Burst 980519

Here is a 15 arcminute excerpt from the scanned POSS plates showing the field of GRB 980519. FITS and JPEG format finder charts.

The coordinates, etc from the BeppoSAX team:

From saxsci@ias.rm.cnr.it Tue May 19 09:33:20 1998
BeppoSAX GRB MAIL N. 98/16
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GB980519

Refined position from the WFC are:
RA(2000)=350.561
Dec(2000)=+77.255

with an error radius of 3'.

This is 2' from the preliminary position.

Luigi Piro
BeppoSAX Mission Scientist
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Corresponding Galactic coordinates are l = 117.95446 , b = 15.25356 resulting in a somewhat crowded field.

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