TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  3548
SUBJECT: H3804:  A Possible New XRB Detected by HETE
DATE:    05/06/14 20:18:59 GMT
FROM:    Roland Vanderspek at MIT  <roland@space.mit.edu>

M. Arimoto, G. Ricker, J-L. Atteia, N. Kawai, D. Lamb, and S. Woosley, 
on behalf of the HETE Science Team; 

T. Donaghy, E. Fenimore, M. Galassi, C. Graziani, J. Kotoku, M. Maetou, 
M. Matsuoka, Y. Nakagawa, T. Sakamoto, R. Sato, Y. Shirasaki, 
M. Suzuki, T. Tamagawa, K. Tanaka, Y. Yamamoto, and A. Yoshida, on 
behalf of the HETE WXM Team; 

E. Morgan, N. Butler, G. Crew, J. Doty, G. Prigozhin, R. Vanderspek, 
J. Villasenor, J. G. Jernigan, A. Levine, G. Azzibrouck, J. Braga, 
R. Manchanda, and G. Pizzichini, on behalf of the HETE Operations and 
HETE Optical-SXC Teams; 

M. Boer, J-F Olive, J-P Dezalay, and K. Hurley, on behalf of the HETE 
FREGATE Team; 

report:


The HETE Fregate, WXM and SXC instruments detected burst H3804 at
11:22 UT on 14 June 2005.  The burst is soft (all photons < 30 keV),
has a FRED-like profile, and exhibits the general spectral and temporal
characteristics of a type I X-ray burst.

H3804 is localized by the WXM and SXC to a circle of radius 80" centered 
at RA = 19h 00m 6.4s, Dec = -24d 54' 54.7" (J2000).
 
H3804 is situated within 15 degrees of the galactic center:  l=11, b=-13.
It does not appear to coincide with any entry for an X-ray source in the 
SIMBAD catalog.  Thus, it is very likely to be a new, previously uncatalogued 
XRB, and not an XRF or a GRB, although we cannot absolutely exclude that 
possibility.

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