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ULYSSES precise localizations of gamma-ray bursts.

Cline, T.; Hurley, K.; Kouveliotou, C. +10 more

The Ulysses mission is presently about 5 AU from Earth, in the vicinity of Jupiter. It carries a gamma-ray burst detector sensitive to ≈ 15 - 150 keV X-rays, with time resolution down to 8 ms. for the purpose of high accuracy burst localization by the time-of-arrival method. This spacecraft, which is farther from Earth than any previous mission wi…