From IAUC 6785:

GRB 971208
     V. Connaughton, National Academy of Sciences/National Research
Council and Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC); and R. M. Kippen
and R. Preece, University Alabama at Huntsville and MSFC, for the
BATSE team; and K. Hurley, University of California at Berkeley,
for the Ulysses team, write that an unusually long and smooth
single-peaked gamma-ray burst (GRB) was detected by BATSE on the
Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory on Dec. 8.335 UT (trigger 6526) and
was detected also by Ulysses.  A duration of nearly 800 s makes it
longer by an order of magnitude than any other single-peaked GRB
observed by BATSE.  It is also the longest single episode of
emission in a BATSE GRB.  Its intensity rose over an interval of 60
s to a maximum flux of 8.97 +/- 0.3 x 10E-7 erg cmE-2 sE-1 (between
25 and 1800 keV; integration time 2.048 s) and decayed with a power
law of roughly -0.4 over the following 700 s.  The total fluence of
the event above 25 keV is estimated to be 1.86 +/- 0.03 x 10E-4 erg
cmE-2.  The BATSE location centroid for the GRB is R.A. = 23h45m50s,
Decl. = +77o56'.4 (equinox 2000.0) with a 1-sigma statistical error
of 1.2 deg.  A preliminary joint BATSE/Ulysses InterPlanetary
Network annulus is described by a center at R.A. = 23h25m39s, Decl.
= -11o52'.4, with a radius of 87.906 deg (half-width 0.224 deg).  A
sky map of the event is available at
http://www.batse.msfc.nasa.gov/~kippen/batserbr/brbr_obs.html.

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