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IAUC 8087: Sats OF JUPITER; 2003bg; GRB 030227

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                                                  Circular No. 8087
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SATELLITES OF JUPITER
     S. S. Sheppard, University of Hawaii (UH), reports the
discovery of seven new satellites of Jupiter, with the astrometry,
orbital elements, and ephemerides given on MPEC 2003-E11.  CCD
observations were obtained during Feb. 5-Mar. 4 by Sheppard, D. C.
Jewitt, J. Kleyna, Y. R. Fernandez, and H. H. Hsieh at Mauna Kea
with the 8.3-m Subaru telescope, the 3.6-m Canada-France-Hawaii
Telescope, and the 2.2-m UH telescope.  The very preliminary
orbital elements by B. G. Marsden indicate that two objects have
direct orbits and five have retrograde orbits:  S/2003 J 1, e =
0.79, i = 35 deg, P = 236 days; S/2003 J 2, e = 0.38, i = 152 deg,
P = 983 days; S/2003 J 3, e = 0.24, i = 144 deg, P = 505 days;
S/2003 J 4, e = 0.20, i = 145 deg, P = 722 days; S/2003 J 5, e =
0.21, i = 165 deg, P = 761 days; S/2003 J 6, e = 0.76, i = 22 deg,
P = 234 days; S/2003 J 7, e = 0.41, i = 159 deg, P = 747 days.
Absolute magnitudes range from 15.6 to 16.9.


SUPERNOVA 2003bg IN MCG -05-10-15
     A. M. Soderberg, S. R. Kulkarni, and E. Berger, California
Institute of Technology; and D. A. Frail, National Radio Astronomy
Observatory, report that an observation of SN 2003bg with the Very
Large Array at 8.46 GHz on Mar. 4.07 UT reveals a radio source with
a flux density of 2.50 +/- 0.06 mJy that is coincident with the
supernova (IAUC 8082).  Estimated as being about 2 weeks past the
explosion time (IAUC 8084), SN 2003bg has a radio luminosity that
is 2 percent of that observed for SN 1998bw at 14 days after the
supernova explosion (Kulkarni et al. 1998, Nature 395, 663).


GRB 030227
     R. Gonzalez-Riestra, M. Guainazzi, N. Loiseau, P. M. Rodriguez-
Pascual, M. Santos-Lleo, N. Schartel, B. Juarez, R. Perez-Martinez,
and M. Gilomo, XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre, report that an
XMM-Newton target-of-opportunity observation of GRB 030227 on Feb.
27.7 UT detected a bright source at R.A. = 4h57m33s.3, Decl. =
+20o29'04" (equinox 2000.0; uncertainty about 4") with the EPIC-pn
and MOS cameras during a 49000-s exposure.  The source faded (in
the band 0.2-5 keV) from 0.15 to 0.07 EPIC-pn counts/s during the
observation.  The spectrum is consistent with a hydrogen column
density of 3 x 10**21 cm**-2.  The observed flux in the range 2-10
keV is 5.5 x 10**-13 erg cm**-2 s**-1.

                      (C) Copyright 2003 CBAT
2003 March 4                   (8087)            Daniel W. E. Green

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