Interplanetary Network Localization of GRB 991208 and the Discovery of its Afterglow
- 1 May 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 534 (1) , L23-L25
- https://doi.org/10.1086/312645
Abstract
The extremely energetic (~10-4 ergs cm-2) gamma-ray burst (GRB) of 1999 December 8 was triangulated to an ~14 arcmin2 error box ~1.8 days after its arrival at Earth with the third interplanetary network (IPN), which consists of the Ulysses, Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, and Wind spacecraft. Radio observations with the Very Large Array ~2.7 days after the burst revealed a bright fading counterpart whose position is consistent with that of an optical transient source with a redshift of 0.707. We present the time history, peak flux, fluence, and refined 1.3 arcmin2 error box of this event and discuss its energetics. This is the first time that a counterpart has been found for a GRB localized only by the IPN.Keywords
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