TITLE:   GCN GRB OBSERVATION REPORT
NUMBER:  364
SUBJECT: GRB990704: possible X-ray afterglow
DATE:    99/07/05 13:13:06 GMT
FROM:    Luigi Piro at IAS/CNR Frascati  <piro@alpha1.ias.rm.cnr.it>

Giangiacomo Gandolfi on behalf of BeppoSAX Mission Scientist reports:

A BeppoSAX follow-up of GRB990704 started about 8 hr after the burst.
Preliminary analysis of the first three orbits of the MECS data at SOC
shows a previously unknown source inside the WFC error circle.

Preliminary coordinates  are:
RA(2000)= 184.872
DEC(2000)= -3.840

The error radius is 1.7'.

BeppoSAX is continuing its observation.


[GCN OPS NOTE: This message was received 08:16 UT 05 Jul 99.]