TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  2934
SUBJECT: Second Epoch VLA observations of SGR 1806-20
DATE:    05/01/04 17:32:20 GMT
FROM:    Patrick B. Cameron at Caltech  <pbc@astro.caltech.edu>

P. B. Cameron (Caltech) and S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech) report:

"We observed a second epoch of the position of SGR 1806-20 with the Very
Large Array (VLA) in A-configuration on 2005 Jan 4.59 UT (t ~ 7.7 days
after the giant flare, GCN #2920). We again detect a radio source
coincident with the X-ray position reported by Kaplan et al. (2002, ApJ,
564, 935) at the approximate freqeuncies and flux densities listed below.

Freq (GHz)    Flux density (mJy)
--------------------------------
1.43          128 +/- 5
4.86          62 +/- 2
8.46          37 +/- 5

Error Bars are 1 sigma. The combination of these measurements with those
reported 2005 Jan 03 (GCN #2928, #2929, 2930, ATEL 373) suggest a decay
exponent (F ~ t^beta) of beta = -2.2 at 1.4 GHz. The spectral index
(F ~ nu^alpha) has remained constant over the two epochs with alpha =
-0.74 and -0.68.

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