TITLE:                      RXTE_ASM TRANSIENT RAPID POSITION NOTICE
REF_NUM:		    1
NOTICE_TYPE:                Crossed_Scan
NOTICE_DATE/TIME:           Mon Sep 11 08:26:03 GMT 2000
TRANS_TIME:                  19709 SOD {05:28:29} UT
TRANS_DATE:                  11798 TJD; 255 DOY; 00/09/12
TRANS_RXTE_ASM_RA:          300.018d (J2000)
TRANS_RXTE_ASM_DEC:         +35.506d (J2000)
TRANS_RXTE_ASM_CORNER1:     300.071d +35.474d (J2000)
TRANS_RXTE_ASM_CORNER2:     300.072d +35.480d (J2000)
TRANS_RXTE_ASM_CORNER3:     300.099d +35.469d (J2000)
TRANS_RXTE_ASM_CORNER4:     300.101d +35.476d (J2000)
TRANS_RXTE_ASM_ERROR:       0.076 [deg radius, 90%, stat + sys]
TRANS_RXTE_ASM_INTEN:        325 [mCrab]
COMMENTS:      
COMMENTS:      TIME SINCE EVENT: 177 minutes
COMMENTS:      
COMMENTS:      This alert is generated by two crossed lines of position
COMMENTS:      with a very high level of confidence for localizing a
COMMENTS:      real uncatalogued x-ray transient or gamma-ray burst.
COMMENTS:      Optical counterparts to GRBs have ONLY ONCE been observed
COMMENTS:      less than a few hours after the event.  We claim no 
COMMENTS:      ownership of any results that follow from this report.
COMMENTS:      We'd like to encourage you to take advantage of this 
COMMENTS:      opportunity to make the next big discovery.
COMMENTS:      
COMMENTS:      Below are quanities to aid in evaluating this alert.
COMMENTS:      Values of chi-sq. less than 1.15 and S/N > 6.0 are good
COMMENTS:      indicators of a strong, real detection.
COMMENTS:
COMMENTS:      Chi-sq.    1.073852 and 1.077989
COMMENTS:      S/N ratio  25.200130 and 25.421722
COMMENTS: 
COMMENTS:      The following comments should help indicate whether or not
COMMENTS:      this alert was spawned by the detection of a GRB.  They are
COMMENTS:      not definitive, but we are confident that there *will* be
COMMENTS:      something new of Astronomical interest in this error box.
COMMENTS:
COMMENTS:      BATSE reports no recent GRB trigger.
COMMENTS:    
COMMENTS:      SSC 1: No short-term variability detected in ASM MTS data.
COMMENTS:      SSC 0: No short-term variability detected in ASM MTS data.
COMMENTS: 
COMMENTS:      This alert was generated by software by Donald A. Smith.
COMMENTS:      Please feel free to email me (dasmith@space.mit.edu)
COMMENTS:      with any questions.
COMMENTS:      A record of ASM Crossed-box alerts is kept at
COMMENTS:      http://xte.mit.edu/crossbox/
COMMENTS:      Please check there for sky maps and time-series data.
COMMENTS:      Please report any results as soon as possible via the
COMMENTS:      GCN circulars and any other means you see fit to use.
COMMENTS:      If you have no immediate means of distributing your 
COMMENTS:      results, feel free to call Don Smith at home: 
COMMENTS:      (617) 720-1612 or at work: (617) 258-8108 for assistance.