Gamma-ray Burst Real-time Sky Map

Burst Details

GRB ID	GRB 060303A
Mission	Konus-Wind
Date	2006/03/03
Time	22:42:47 UTC
Coordinates
Right ascension	02:49:18
Declination	16:52:08
Galactic Lon.	159.35°
Galactic Lat.	-37.53°
Constellation of	Aries

Detecting Mission : Konus-Wind

Burst Description

This burst was detected by several of the satellites in the Interplanetary Network, a group of space probes with gamma-ray detectors on them which can be used to triangulate the positions of GRBs. NOTE: in this case, the coordinates given are NOT for the GRB position! The IPN could not nail down the GRB location in this case. The mathematics works out such that the position can only be narrowed down to a large ring or annulus in the sky. The coordinates represent the center of this ring, and the ring itself is 73.3 degrees in radius, which is admittedly pretty big.

Due to the uncertainty of the position, it is extremely unlikely any followup observations will be made. However, Konus-WIND was able to determine that the burst lasted for 0.6 seconds, and was "hard"; that is, emitted high-energy gamma rays.

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Right Ascension	02:49:18
Declination	16:52:08
Constellation of	Aries

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Right Ascension	02:49:18
Declination	16:52:08
FOV	15 arc-minutes x 15 arc-minutes

Mission Dossier

Mission Name:	Konus-Wind
Full Mission Name:
Participating Nations:	United States of America, France, Russia
Primary Agencies:	NASA, ESA
Mission Heads:	Three-Dimensional Plasma Analyzer (3DP) R. Lin, boblin@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu Solar Wind Experiment (SWE) K Ogilvie, u2kwo@lepvax.gsfc.nasa.gov Radio and Plasma Waves (WAVES) M. Kaiser, u3mlk@lepvax.gsfc.nasa.gov J. Bougeret, bougeret@obspm.fr Energetic Particle Acceleration, Composition and Transport (EPACT) T. Von Rosenvinge, rosenvinge@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov Solar Wind Ion Composition Study, the "Mass" Sensor, and Suprathermal Ion Composition Study (SMS) G. Gloeckler, gloeckler@umdsp.dnet.nasa.gov Magnetic Fields Investigation (MFI) R. Lepping, u5rpl@lepvax.gsfc.nasa.gov Transient Gamma Ray Spectrometer (TGRS) B Teegarden, teegarden@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov Gamma Ray Spectrometer (KONUS) E. Mazets, mazets@mz.ioffe.rssi.ru T. Cline, cline@lheapop.gsfc.nasa.gov
Cost:	Unknown
Expected Lifetime:	unknown
Mission Objective:
WIND was launched on November 1, 1994 and is the first of two NASA spacecraft in the Global Geospace Science initiative and part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics project. The science objectives of the WIND mission are: Provide complete plasma, energetic particle, and magnetic field input for magnetospheric and ionospheric studies Determine the magnetospheric output to interplanetary space in the up-stream region Investigate basic plasma processes occuring in the near-Earth solar wind Provide baseline ecliptic plane observations to be used in heliospheric latitudes from ULYSSES.
Spacecraft Specification:
See the WIND homepage for information about the spacecraft and specific instruments.
Instrumentation:
Please see WIND Instruments page for further information.
Mission History:
WIND was launched on November 1, 1994 and is the first of two NASA spacecraft in the Global Geospace Science initiative and part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Project. WIND was positioned in a sunward, multiple double-lunar swingby orbit with a maximum apogee of 250Re during the first two years of operation, which was followed by a halo orbit at the Earth-Sun L1 point.