TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  2541
SUBJECT: INTEGRAL detection of activity from SGR1806-20
DATE:    04/03/09 11:03:32 GMT
FROM:    Sandro Mereghetti at IASF/CNR  <sandro@mi.iasf.cnr.it>

S Mereghetti, D.Gotz, M. Beck and J.Borkowski on behalf of the IBAS
Localization Team, S.Shaw and K.Pottschmidt on behalf of the INTEGRAL
Science Data Centre and F.Mirabel on behalf the INTEGRAL Science Working
Team report:

The IBAS alert n.1563 corresponds to a short burst (0.2 seconds)  with
preliminary position within 1 arcminutes from the soft gamma-ray repeater
SGR1806-20.

Further off-line data analysis is in progress.

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